skills
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When repository-local and user-installed skills share a name, use the repository-local copy under .agents/skills/ or .claude/skills/. When testing a skill, report the resolved SKILL.md path. After every skill change, including additions, edits, renames, and removals: The user's global agent instructions live in /home/mrzli/projects/personal/mrzli/archon/data/home/.codex/AGENTS.md, deployed to ~/.codex/AGENTS.md. Keep the skills consistent with them without depending on them, as writing-skills and maintain-skills describe. Changes to that file go to archon as a handoff.
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 repository17 other files it gives its agents.
- clarifySkill
- collectSkill
- handoffSkill
- interrogateSkill
- pendingSkill
- progressSkill
- recapSkill
- restateSkill
- spawnSkill
- warmupSkill
- yieldSkill
- glossarySkill
- tidy-docsSkill
- writing-agentsSkill
- writing-skillsSkill
- writing-textSkill
- teachSkill
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.
≈0
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
- Very specific: line 3
When repository-local and user-installed skills share a name, use the repository-local copy under .agents/skills/ or .claude/skills/.
- Distinctive: line 5
After every skill change, including additions, edits, renames, and removals:
- Distinctive: line 7
Run the repository-local tidy-docs skill with its default scope.
- Very specific: line 8
Run bash scripts/sync-skills.sh from the repository root to synchronize discovery links in .agents/skills and .claude/skills.
- Very specific: line 9
Add or update routing cases for the changed skills, following maintain-skills.
≈ “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
Skill changes
When repository-local and user-installed skills share a name, use the repository-local copy under .agents/skills/ or .claude/skills/. When testing a skill, report the resolved SKILL.md path.
After every skill change, including additions, edits, renames, and removals:
- Run the repository-local tidy-docs skill with its default scope. Treat its cleanup edits as part of the same change. Do not invoke it recursively for its own edits.
- Run
bash scripts/sync-skills.shfrom the repository root to synchronize discovery links in.agents/skillsand.claude/skills. - Add or update routing cases for the changed skills, following maintain-skills. Run them once the user has installed the changes.
User's rules
The user's global agent instructions live in /home/mrzli/projects/personal/mrzli/archon/data/home/.codex/AGENTS.md, deployed to ~/.codex/AGENTS.md. Keep the skills consistent with them without depending on them, as writing-skills and maintain-skills describe. Changes to that file go to archon as a handoff.
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