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Gangsta is an AI agentic skills framework for spec-driven development. Skills are behavior-shaping code, not documentation. They must be tested rigorously. Every skill change requires: 1. Baseline testing: Run a pressure scenario WITHOUT the change, document behavior 2. Change testing: Run the same scenario WITH the change, document improvement 3. Include both results in your PR Active Negative Constraints in docs/gangsta/constitution.md are binding on contributors. Adding or modifying a Negative Constraint requires Don approval through a Heist; do not edit…
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 repository20 other files it gives its agents.
- rules/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- audit-reviewSkill
- drill-tddSkill
- exit-strategySkill
- interrogation-debuggingSkill
- launderingSkill
- omertaSkill
- receiving-ordersSkill
- reconnaissanceSkill
- resource-developmentSkill
- safehouse-worktreesSkill
- sweep-verificationSkill
- the-capoSkill
- the-consigliereSkill
- the-grillingSkill
- the-hitSkill
- the-ledgerSkill
- the-sit-downSkill
- the-underbossSkill
- using-gangstaSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 18
Every skill change requires:
≈ “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
Contributing to Gangsta
What This Is
Gangsta is an AI agentic skills framework for spec-driven development. Skills are behavior-shaping code, not documentation. They must be tested rigorously.
What Will NOT Be Accepted
- Third-party dependencies (this is a zero-dependency package)
- Changes that weaken Omerta governance rules
- Skills without adversarial pressure testing
- Bulk PRs with unrelated changes bundled together
- "Improvements" that add complexity without clear value
- Narrative storytelling in skill content (skills are instructions, not blog posts)
Skill Changes
Every skill change requires:
- Baseline testing: Run a pressure scenario WITHOUT the change, document behavior
- Change testing: Run the same scenario WITH the change, document improvement
- Include both results in your PR
The Laws Apply to Contributors Too
- Omerta Law 3 (Rule of Truth): Every claim in a PR must be verifiable
- Omerta Law 5 (Spec is Law): Changes must align with the framework design spec
The Constitutional Floor
Active Negative Constraints in docs/gangsta/constitution.md are binding on contributors. Adding or modifying a Negative Constraint requires Don approval through a Heist; do not edit docs/gangsta/constitution.md directly in a PR without an associated Heist.
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