swarm-skill
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This repo ships one Agent Skill, skills/swarm/, to every host: Claude Code, Codex/ChatGPT, pi, npx skills, and claude.ai. Read CONTRIBUTING.md. The rules that matter most: - skills/swarm/ is the only copy of the skill. Never copy it into .claude/skills, .agents/skills or plugins/ here. - Never edit the generated manifests (plugin.json, .claude-plugin/*, .codex-plugin/*, .agents/plugins/*) by hand. Edit tools/manifests.mjs or package.json, then run npm run sync. - SKILL.md frontmatter holds the six Agent Skills fields plus disable-model-invocation. Quote every metadata value. Don't…
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 repository2 other files it gives its agents.
- skills/swarm/workers/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- swarmSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 0 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.
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Distinctive · estimate
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.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
- Very specific: line 8
Never edit the generated manifests (plugin.json, .claude-plugin/*, .codex-plugin/*, .agents/plugins/*) by hand.
- Very specific: line 14
Add a line under ## [Unreleased] in CHANGELOG.md for every user-visible change.
- Very specific: line 15
Before you commit, npm run check must pass (and claude plugin validate .
≈ “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.
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This repo ships one Agent Skill, skills/swarm/, to every host: Claude Code, Codex/ChatGPT, pi,
npx skills, and claude.ai. Read CONTRIBUTING.md. The rules that matter most:
skills/swarm/is the only copy of the skill. Never copy it into.claude/skills,.agents/skillsorplugins/here.- Never edit the generated manifests (
plugin.json,.claude-plugin/*,.codex-plugin/*,.agents/plugins/*) by hand. Edittools/manifests.mjsorpackage.json, then runnpm run sync. SKILL.mdfrontmatter holds the six Agent Skills fields plusdisable-model-invocation. Quote everymetadatavalue. Don't set versions by hand: the release workflow does it.skills/swarm/scripts/swarm.mjsguards money, credentials and safety. Every change needs a test intests/. Keep it dependency-free.- Add a line under
## [Unreleased]inCHANGELOG.mdfor every user-visible change. - Before you commit,
npm run checkmust pass (andclaude plugin validate .when Claude Code is installed).
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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.

