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AGENTS.md4 starsChanged 47 days agoMITView on GitHub
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 31,700 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.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/assumption-audit/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/decision-matrix/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/direct-setup/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/direct-verify/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/first-principles-thinking/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/percolate-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/percolate-reading/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/phase-final-reviewer/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/phase-implementer/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/phase-orchestrator/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/phase-reviewer/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/plan-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/pr-cleanup/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/query-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/question-forge/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/reclaim-disk-space/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/refresh-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/riff/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/save-pdf-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/save-url-kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- .agents/skills/write-phase-plan/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- kb/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- personal-website/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- scripts/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- assumption-auditSkill
- decision-matrixSkill
- direct-setupSkill
- direct-verifySkill
- first-principles-thinkingSkill
- percolate-kbSkill
- percolate-readingSkill
- phase-final-reviewerSkill
- phase-implementerSkill
- phase-orchestratorSkill
- phase-reviewerSkill
- plan-kbSkill
- pr-cleanupSkill
- query-kbSkill
- question-forgeSkill
- reclaim-disk-spaceSkill
- refresh-kbSkill
- riffSkill
- save-pdf-kbSkill
- save-url-kbSkill
- write-phase-planSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
3
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 8
Keep docs/ current and procedural.
- Very specific: line 9
Follow WRITING.md for repository prose and STYLE.md when a document addresses readers outside the repository.
- Very specific: line 11
Keep editorial imagery optional.
- Distinctive: line 12
Update this guide when the directory gains a distinct documentation surface or verification requirement.
≈ “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
Contents
documentation.md– current ownership rules for guides, runbooks, executable contracts, and knowledge records.editorial-images.md– opt-in procedure for useful article imagery, one typed representative-image record, discovery projections, review, and performance checks.
Guidelines
- Keep
docs/current and procedural. Put rationale, historical evidence, synthesis, and change coordination inkb/. - Follow
WRITING.mdfor repository prose andSTYLE.mdwhen a document addresses readers outside the repository. - Link to the authoritative command, type, test, or local guide instead of copying a contract that can drift.
- Keep editorial imagery optional. Update
editorial-images.mdwhen the representative-image workflow or its verification surfaces change. - Update this guide when the directory gains a distinct documentation surface or verification requirement.
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