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This directory contains instructions for software agents, not executable shell scripts. - Every script lives in one kebab-case folder with README.md and SYSTEM_PROMPT.md. - Keep evergreen prompts vendor-neutral. Put volatile model IDs, pricing, and harness-specific settings in optional adapters or runtime configuration. - Add or update behavioral regression cases before tuning behavior-changing instructions. Record evaluation limits honestly. - Role overlays may narrow authority but never expand the shared prompt or user authorization. - Treat prompt changes like code: preserve user…
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 repository9 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- frontend-responsive-designSkill
- google-maps-a2uiSkill
- infographic-agentSkill
- portfolio-contentSkill
- portfolio-designSkill
- portfolio-presentingSkill
- portfolio-reviewSkill
- skill-improvement-loopSkill
The file
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
- Very specific: line 6
Every script lives in one kebab-case folder with README.md and SYSTEM_PROMPT.md.
- Distinctive: line 8
Keep evergreen prompts vendor-neutral.
- Distinctive: line 10
Add or update behavioral regression cases before tuning behavior-changing instructions.
- Distinctive: line 14
Treat prompt changes like code: preserve user work, review the diff, run the relevant contract cases, and use a reviewer that did not write …
≈ “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
Agent script guidance
This directory contains instructions for software agents, not executable shell scripts.
- Every script lives in one kebab-case folder with
README.mdandSYSTEM_PROMPT.md. - Keep evergreen prompts vendor-neutral. Put volatile model IDs, pricing, and harness-specific settings in optional adapters or runtime configuration.
- Add or update behavioral regression cases before tuning behavior-changing instructions. Record evaluation limits honestly.
- Role overlays may narrow authority but never expand the shared prompt or user authorization.
- Treat prompt changes like code: preserve user work, review the diff, run the relevant contract cases, and use a reviewer that did not write the candidate.
- Surface publishable entries through
portfolio/content/scripts/; do not duplicate the canonical prompt in portfolio prose.
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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.