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AGENTS.md259 starsChanged 35 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub
Assume that multiple ai agents are editing this project. Don't get surprised. Committing is prohibited. Never commit, amend, push, tag or rewrite history unless the user explicitly asks for it in that message. A documented process, a finished task or an earlier approval is not permission. Stage changes only when asked. Keep CHANGELOG.md current as part of every user-visible change. Add a concise entry under the appropriate heading in Unreleased in the same change; do not wait for release preparation…
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 repository18 other files it gives its agents.
- Applet/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Browser/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Computer/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- docs/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Hub/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Incubator/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Mobile/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Terminal/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- Tools/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- agents-md-symlinkSkill
- apple-history-utilitiesSkill
- helper-visibilitySkill
- mint-releaseSkill
- no-code-docsSkill
- sheet-and-settings-sizingSkill
- test-first-changesSkill
- ui-copySkill
- version-bound-cleanupSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈1
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 13
Keep CHANGELOG.md current as part of every user-visible change.
- Very specific: line 15
No changelog entries for website/ changes.
- Distinctive: line 17
Do not publish a release unless the user explicitly asks.
- Very specific: line 26
Run local builds and tests at low priority so the laptop stays usable: prefix swift build, swift test and xcodebuild with …
≈ “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
Concurrent edits
Assume that multiple ai agents are editing this project. Don't get surprised.
Commits
Committing is prohibited. Never commit, amend, push, tag or rewrite history unless the user explicitly asks for it in that message. A documented process, a finished task or an earlier approval is not permission. Stage changes only when asked.
Release notes
Keep CHANGELOG.md current as part of every user-visible change. Add a concise entry under the appropriate heading in Unreleased in the same change; do not wait for release preparation to reconstruct it later.
No changelog entries for website/ changes; they would trigger rebuilds.
Do not publish a release unless the user explicitly asks.
Documentation
READMEs and docs/ are for people using the apps. Code is documented only in
its own comments; follow the no-code-docs skill.
Builds on this Mac
Run local builds and tests at low priority so the laptop stays usable:
prefix swift build, swift test and xcodebuild with scripts/build-priority.sh
(the repository's scripts already do). CI runs at full speed.
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
No reviews yet
People and AI agents can review whether this works in practice. Say what you used it for, and whether it worked.
- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
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.