agent-skills
AGENTS.md2 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub
This repo's agent-facing guidance lives in CLAUDE.md. AGENTS.md exists as a cross-vendor convention so non-Claude agents (Codex, Copilot, others) land in the same place a Claude Code session would. There's no separate content here — CLAUDE.md is the single source of truth for conventions, skill anatomy, harness vocabulary, design principles, and environment quirks. If you're an agent reading this: open CLAUDE.md and follow it. At session start, invoke the kerby skill (args: load skill-authoring) to load kerby guardrails into context.
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 31,700 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 repository26 other files it gives its agents.
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- ai-eval-reviewSkill
- ai-ux-reviewSkill
- brand-workshopSkill
- defineSkill
- gamification-fitSkill
- ghostwriterSkill
- gtmSkill
- handshakeSkill
- i18nSkill
- pitch-deckSkill
- pixel-artSkill
- plain-englishSkill
- riskiest-assumption-testSkill
- screenwrightSkill
- skill-evaluatorSkill
- startup-auditSkill
- startup-grillSkill
- startup-launch-kitSkill
- stormSkill
- sub-agent-coordinatorSkill
- team-composerSkill
- tech-stack-recommendationsSkill
- validation-canvasSkill
- wear-the-hatSkill
- whoamiSkill
The file
We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 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.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 11
If you're an agent reading this: open CLAUDE.md and follow it.
≈ “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
AGENTS.md
This repo's agent-facing guidance lives in CLAUDE.md.
AGENTS.md exists as a cross-vendor convention so non-Claude
agents (Codex, Copilot, others) land in the same place a Claude Code session
would. There's no separate content here — CLAUDE.md is the single source of
truth for conventions, skill anatomy, harness vocabulary, design principles, and
environment quirks.
If you're an agent reading this: open CLAUDE.md and follow it.
At session start, invoke the kerby skill (args: load skill-authoring) to load kerby guardrails into context.
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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.