qiongli
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- Deliver the CLI-first research workflow through native CLI, Plugin/Skills and MCP. Codex is the primary development and verification Host; other Agents adapt the shared contracts. Preserve compatibility and the user's configured models. The retained Desktop is maintenance scope, not the current delivery target. - The master roadmap owns direction and the execution horizon; read its current bounded plan. The program ledger owns task status and accepted evidence. Keep changing progress there and in the plan, not duplicated here. Local…
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.
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 2 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.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 15
Read relevant .trellis/spec/ contracts when changing their package/layer.
- Very specific: line 21
Follow CONTRIBUTING.md: local feature branch → affected checks → review and scoped commits → local fast-forward merge into 2.x.
- Distinctive: line 28
Run the closest meaningful checks, retaining validation, permission, compatibility and data-loss negative cases.
≈ “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
Project instructions
Direction and sources
- Deliver the CLI-first research workflow through native CLI, Plugin/Skills and MCP. Codex is the primary development and verification Host; other Agents adapt the shared contracts. Preserve compatibility and the user's configured models. The retained Desktop is maintenance scope, not the current delivery target.
- The master roadmap owns direction and the execution horizon; read its current bounded plan. The program ledger owns task status and accepted evidence. Keep changing progress there and in the plan, not duplicated here. Local checks or merges do not establish acceptance.
- Accepted ADRs own architecture; supersede them rather than rewriting history.
Read relevant
.trellis/spec/contracts when changing their package/layer. Retained.trellis/records are project knowledge, not a mandatory task engine; do not reinstall Trellis skills, hooks or agents unless requested.
Development and integration
- Follow CONTRIBUTING.md: local feature branch → affected
checks → review and scoped commits → local fast-forward merge into
2.x. These local actions are authorized for requested work without per-step approval; no PR or remote CI wait is required. - Inspect the diff and trace behavior to its existing owner. State the smallest useful outcome and reuse the current plan; routine fixes need no new task/PRD, context manifest or journal. Edit canonical sources, not generated copies.
- Run the closest meaningful checks, retaining validation, permission, compatibility and data-loss negative cases. Reuse results until code, dependencies or inputs change; commit/merge alone does not warrant a rerun.
- Review the final diff, update affected contracts, and record checks, remaining gaps and the next increment once at integration. External evidence gates readiness claims, not independent development.
- The main Agent may implement and check directly. Delegate only useful, bounded independent work with clear file ownership and a shared interface.
- Preserve unrelated changes and user data. Qiongli project writes use the existing preview/approval/CAS owners. Material scope changes, private research access, destructive actions, push, remote-rule changes and publication require authority for that action; local coding authorization does not imply it.
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