skill-index / records
AGENTS.md0 starsChanged 3 months agoMITView on GitHub
Each JSON file describes one skill or domain. Records are maintained inputs; generated indexes are projections. Run make index and make check after changing records.
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 repository23 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- domains/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- index/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- research/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- reviews/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- skills/AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- ai-writing-reviewSkill
- general-writingSkill
- live-data-rewriteSkill
- live-ui-auditSkill
- parallel-build-sprintSkill
- r2cSkill
- research-stackSkill
- ship-itSkill
- skill-indexSkill
- streamdeck-authoringSkill
- video-creative-rulesSkill
- wikipedia-researchSkill
- wikipedia-reviewSkill
- wikipedia-workflowSkill
- wikipedia-writingSkill
- writing-cleanupSkill
- writing-reviewSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈0
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
5
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 8
Use one file at records/skills/<skill-name>.json.
- Very specific: line 9
Keep name, folder name, frontmatter name, and path aligned.
- Very specific: line 10
Use active, experimental, or deprecated lifecycle status.
- Very specific: line 11
Use bootstrap, routable, explicit, or retired load mode.
- Very specific: line 23
Run make index and make check after changing records.
≈ “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
Record instructions
Each JSON file describes one skill or domain. Records are maintained inputs; generated indexes are projections.
Skill records
- Use one file at
records/skills/<skill-name>.json. - Keep
name, folder name, frontmatter name, and path aligned. - Use
active,experimental, ordeprecatedlifecycle status. - Use
bootstrap,routable,explicit, orretiredload mode. - State concise positive triggers and exclusions that improve routing.
- Optional
aliasesadd exact human phrases; optionalscope_termsrequire domain evidence for broad queries. Exact names remain discoverable. Exclusions accompany candidates for agent judgment. - Reference external evidence as
<packet-id>:<source-id>. - Active records require a current review receipt.
Domain records
- Use one file at
records/domains/<domain-name>.json. - Domain documentation lives below
domains/<domain-name>/. - An active domain must contain at least one active skill.
Run make index and make check after changing records.
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