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When a user asks for a repository survey, project map, lesson, drill, quiz, mock interview, or grade review, load SKILL.md. Evidence: docs/2026-09-12-sparring-as-software-design.md, sections 3.1 and 4; docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1 and 8. Select one mode from its table. Load references/interviewer-rules.md for every mode. Load references/components.md before writing lesson content. Evidence: docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1, 5, and 9. Apply the selected reference as an ordered procedure. Keep claims grounded, keep rubrics hidden until commitment, and record every graded answer. Evidence: docs/research/2026-09-12-large-repository-survey.md, findings 10…
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 31,774 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.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- opus-as-fableSkill
- sparringSkill
- sparringSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 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
- Very specific: line 3
When a user asks for a repository survey, project map, lesson, drill, quiz, mock interview, or grade review, load SKILL.md.
- Very specific: line 9
Use the MCP server tools named by the selected reference.
≈ “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
Sparring agent rules
When a user asks for a repository survey, project map, lesson, drill, quiz, mock interview, or grade review, load SKILL.md. Evidence: docs/2026-09-12-sparring-as-software-design.md, sections 3.1 and 4; docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1 and 8.
Select one mode from its table. Load references/interviewer-rules.md for every mode. Load references/components.md before writing lesson content. Evidence: docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1, 5, and 9.
Apply the selected reference as an ordered procedure. Keep claims grounded, keep rubrics hidden until commitment, and record every graded answer. Evidence: docs/research/2026-09-12-large-repository-survey.md, findings 10 and 11; docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1, 8, 9, and 11.
Use the MCP server tools named by the selected reference. Return the learner-facing result only after the required server submission or record succeeds. Evidence: docs/2026-09-12-sparring-as-software-design.md, sections 3.1 and 4; docs/research/2026-09-10-learning-science.md, findings 1, 8, and 9.
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