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Guidance for AI coding agents working in this repo. When asked to run a consistency check (or to fix inconsistencies), follow this order: 1. Run tools/check_consistency.py — mechanical checks; must exit 0 before anything else. 2. Follow tools/CONSISTENCY.md — the semantic LLM audit catalog. Sweep all skills/docs against its rules, fix every instance, sweep the sibling skills for the same defect. 3. When you discover a NEW inconsistency pattern, add a rule to tools/CONSISTENCY.md so it does not recur, then…
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 31,439 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 repository4 other files it gives its agents.
- build-knowledgeSkill
- create-epicSkill
- create-user-storySkill
- explore-ideaSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
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
- Distinctive: line 7
When asked to run a consistency check (or to fix inconsistencies), follow this order:
- Very specific: line 9
Run tools/check_consistency.py — mechanical checks.
- Very specific: line 10
Follow tools/CONSISTENCY.md — the semantic LLM audit catalog.
- Very specific: line 12
When you discover a NEW inconsistency pattern, add a rule to tools/CONSISTENCY.md so it does not recur, then re-run the mechanical checks.
- Distinctive: line 22
After any approved modification, update the documentation that names what changed (tools, paths, versions, commands, sections, constants) …
≈ “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
AGENTS.md
Guidance for AI coding agents working in this repo.
Consistency audits
When asked to run a consistency check (or to fix inconsistencies), follow this order:
- Run
tools/check_consistency.py— mechanical checks; must exit 0 before anything else. - Follow
tools/CONSISTENCY.md— the semantic LLM audit catalog. Sweep all skills/docs against its rules, fix every instance, sweep the sibling skills for the same defect. - When you discover a NEW inconsistency pattern, add a rule to
tools/CONSISTENCY.mdso it does not recur, then re-run the mechanical checks.
Conventions
- Skills under
skills/are shipped operating constraints for the LLM, not aspirational docs. - Package version lives in
package.jsonand.claude-plugin/plugin.jsonand must stay in sync with any version-pinned README install command..claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonis a catalog entry, not a version source — keep its pluginnamealigned withplugin.json. - Product nouns are "epic", "user story", "story", "knowledge base"; the consumer is the "PO".
- After any approved modification, update the documentation that names what changed (tools, paths, versions, commands, sections, constants) in the SAME change. A stale doc is the same defect as broken code.
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Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

