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It is still baffling to me why we need AGENTS.md

Any well-maintained project should already have a CONTRIBUTING.md that has good information for both humans and agents.

Sometimes I actually start my sessions like this "please read the contributing.md file to understand how to build/test this project before making any code changes"

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Just symlink CONTRIBUTING as AGENTS

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This only works on systems that support symlinks. It also pollutes the root folder with more files.

I understand the sentiment, but it is really strange that the people that are pushing for agents.md haven't seen https://contributing.md/

Is it even mentioned at GitHub docs https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-proje...

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If the harnesses had a simple system prompt "read repository level markdown and honor the house style"?

Think of the agent app store people's children man, it would be a sad Christmas.

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