AriaAI
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This file is the Codex entry point for the repository. Read agent.md before changing code; it is the complete project guide and remains the source of truth for repository layout, architecture, deployment, and collaboration rules. - Preserve user changes and unrelated work. Never discard a dirty worktree. - Keep product/domain state and execution control in AriaAI. Projects, clients, memory, tasks, artifacts, approvals, permissions, and audit history always belong to Aria's native services. - Treat backend/app/services/chat/product_run_events.py as the backend run event…
Where files are headingNew AGENTS.md files have more rules about keeping secrets out of the code, and fewer about code style.
Of the AGENTS.md files we read, the 31,774 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository48 other files it gives its agents.
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The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
6 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈4
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 10
Keep product/domain state and execution control in AriaAI.
- Very specific: line 13
Treat backend/app/services/chat/product_run_events.py as the backend run event contract and web/src/types/productRunEvent.ts as its …
- Distinctive: line 17
Do not add a Codex App Server, Codex SDK, Codex subprocess, or Codex protocol dependency to the Aria application runtime.
- Distinctive: line 20
When adapting useful open-source implementations, port the smallest cohesive mechanism into Aria's language and architecture.
- Distinctive: line 30
Add focused tests with every behavioral change.
- Distinctive: line 34
Update the relevant design or operations document when changing a public event, runtime boundary, approval flow, data model, or deployment …
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 40,246 AGENTS.md files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
AriaAI Agent Guide
This file is the Codex entry point for the repository. Read agent.md before
changing code; it is the complete project guide and remains the source of truth
for repository layout, architecture, deployment, and collaboration rules.
Working contract
- Preserve user changes and unrelated work. Never discard a dirty worktree.
- Keep product/domain state and execution control in AriaAI. Projects, clients, memory, tasks, artifacts, approvals, permissions, and audit history always belong to Aria's native services.
- Treat
backend/app/services/chat/product_run_events.pyas the backend run event contract andweb/src/types/productRunEvent.tsas its frontend mirror. - Route consequential writes through AriaAI authorization and HITAS. A model, provider, or filesystem-sandbox decision is not business authorization.
- Do not add a Codex App Server, Codex SDK, Codex subprocess, or Codex protocol dependency to the Aria application runtime. Codex may be used as a developer tool, but Aria does not communicate with Codex in production.
- When adapting useful open-source implementations, port the smallest cohesive mechanism into Aria's language and architecture. Record its upstream commit, source path, license, attribution, and Aria modifications. Keep the current model-provider paths intact and verify behavior with focused tests.
Development loop
- Backend commands run from
backend/withbackend/.venv/bin/pythonwhen the checked-in virtual environment exists. - Frontend commands run from
web/. - Add focused tests with every behavioral change. Run focused tests first, then the broader affected suite.
- Database changes require an idempotent Alembic revision with exactly one
migration head. Do not rely only on
SQLModel.metadata.create_all. - Update the relevant design or operations document when changing a public event, runtime boundary, approval flow, data model, or deployment contract.
Useful checks
cd backend
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_agent_harness_native.py
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q tests/test_product_run_events.py
cd ../web
npm test -- --run src/stores/runActivityReducer.test.ts
npm run buildRepository skills
Curated developer-agent discovery links live in .agents/skills/. They are
development metadata only and are never loaded by the Aria production runtime.
Canonical Aria Skill packages remain under skills/.
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