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AGENTS.md824 starsChanged 5 days agoMITView on GitHub
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We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈3
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
1
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 3
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- Distinctive: line 10
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- Distinctive: line 12
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- Very specific: line 15
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≈ “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.
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Follow the repository's contribution guidance and development instructions. These instructions supplement those guides; they do not change contribution eligibility or merge requirements.
Preparing team-authored pull requests
Before preparing or updating a team-authored PR, use the prepare-team-pr skill. Follow its authorization checks, evidence collection, review assessment, and ownership requirements.
Read the current PR template.
Preserve its sections and generate or update the skill's
Team-authored review section in the PR body, not in the template.
Other versions1 project uses a version of this.
Word for word · 1
- desktop/desktop★ 22k100% same
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 0
None found.
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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 repository5 other files it gives its agents.
- .github/copilot-instructions.mdCopilot instructions
- prepare-team-prSkill
- assign-copilotSkill
- testingSkill
- update-gitSkill
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