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Keep this file short. It defines stable agent behavior and points to authoritative repository sources; it is not a duplicate developer handbook. - Start with README.md for the product overview and entry points. - Follow CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/gitflow.md for contribution, branch, PR, and release flow. - Use the affected package's README, CONTRIBUTING file, manifest, and scripts for package-specific commands and conventions. - Use docs/architecture/ for published architecture and the active workflows and configuration for current CI behavior. - Follow the…

We split this AGENTS.md into the rules it gives an agent

12 rules. About 1 is common, 10 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.

  • ≈1

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈10

    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
  • could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
  1. Distinctive:

    Keep this file short. It defines stable agent behavior and points to authoritative repository sources.

    line 3
  2. Distinctive:

    Start with README.md for the product overview and entry points.

    line 8
  3. Distinctive:

    Use the affected package's README, CONTRIBUTING file, manifest, and scripts for package-specific commands and conventions.

    line 12
  4. Very specific:

    Use docs/architecture/ for published architecture and the active workflows and configuration for current CI behavior.

    line 14
  5. Distinctive:

    Follow the nearest scoped AGENTS.md when one exists.

    line 16
  6. Distinctive:

    Do not copy commands, versions, package rosters, workflow counts, infrastructure, or other volatile facts into agent instructions.

    line 18
  7. Distinctive:

    Run the narrowest relevant package-owned lint, type, unit, and integration checks before handoff.

    line 29
  8. Distinctive:

    Do not delete, disable, skip, or weaken tests to make a check pass.

    line 31
  9. Distinctive:

    Do not commit, push, post reviews or comments, publish, or otherwise mutate remote systems unless the user explicitly requests it.

    line 37
  10. Distinctive:

    Prefer improving an existing document over creating another source of truth.

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  11. Common:

    Never commit secrets or concrete private infrastructure details, internal IDs, or private document links.

    line 46
  12. Distinctive:

    Keep changes scoped, preserve established package boundaries, and use each package's own dependency and test tooling.

    line 48

≈ “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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AGENTS.md

Repository Agent Guide

Keep this file short. It defines stable agent behavior and points to authoritative repository sources; it is not a duplicate developer handbook.

Sources of truth

  • Start with README.md for the product overview and entry points.
  • Follow CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/gitflow.md for contribution, branch, PR, and release flow.
  • Use the affected package's README, CONTRIBUTING file, manifest, and scripts for package-specific commands and conventions.
  • Use docs/architecture/ for published architecture and the active workflows and configuration for current CI behavior.
  • Follow the nearest scoped AGENTS.md when one exists.

Do not copy commands, versions, package rosters, workflow counts, infrastructure, or other volatile facts into agent instructions. Link to their owning source.

Working agreement

  • User instructions take precedence, followed by the nearest scoped instructions and current repository sources. Verify current behavior instead of preserving a historical workaround.
  • Preserve unrelated changes in a dirty worktree.
  • Diagnose reported failures from runtime evidence before editing. Add tests for the confirmed failure mode rather than speculative paths.
  • Run the narrowest relevant package-owned lint, type, unit, and integration checks before handoff. Report any check that cannot run.
  • Do not delete, disable, skip, or weaken tests to make a check pass. Fix the confirmed failure or report the blocker.
  • Regenerate the lockfile in the same commit as any package.json dependency change, and never hand-edit it. CI installs frozen, so a stale lockfile blocks every pull request, not only the bumped package. See the dependency bump section of CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • Do not commit, push, post reviews or comments, publish, or otherwise mutate remote systems unless the user explicitly requests it.

Maintaining the repository

  • Rewrite documentation in place: replace obsolete or corrected prose instead of appending conversation history, correction notes, or parallel guidance. Changelogs, explicit migration records, and ADR/QIP supersession history are exceptions.
  • Prefer improving an existing document over creating another source of truth.
  • Never commit secrets or concrete private infrastructure details, internal IDs, or private document links. Use safe placeholders in public examples.
  • Keep changes scoped, preserve established package boundaries, and use each package's own dependency and test tooling.

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