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We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent

23 rules. About 0 are common, 15 are distinctive, and 8 are very specific to this project.

• ≈0

  Common · estimate

  Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

• ≈15

  Distinctive · estimate

  This author's own choices. Worth a look.

• 8

  Very specific

  Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

Licensed with conditions — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.

≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 36,368 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.

• 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 28,693 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.

  • CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
  • .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions