A Complete Guide To AGENTS.md

kept by eddie aug 13

An AGENTS.md file configures AI coding agent behavior, and should be kept minimal using progressive disclosure—only essential instructions like project description and package manager belong at the root, with other rules delegated to separate files.

The Orchestrator's Tax
The author argues that in multi‑agent LLM workflows the real cost is context pollution in the orchestrator’s working memory, not token usage or parallelism, and proposes rules to protect it.
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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main · humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
AI coding agents alone can't sustain high-quality software factories because model limitations and review bottlenecks remain, requiring better context engineering rather than just more loops.
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Introducing Nub: an all-in-one toolkit for Node.js — Nub
Nub is a Rust CLI that augments Node.js with TypeScript execution, fast script/bin running, built-in version management, and a pnpm-compatible package manager — all without replacing Node's runtime.
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Using skills to accelerate OSS maintenance
Using skills, AGENTS.md, and GitHub Actions, OpenAI accelerated OSS maintenance in their Agents SDK repos, merging 457 PRs in three months, up from 316.
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Building An Elite AI Engineering Culture In 2026
High-performing engineering teams in 2026 are defined by taste, discipline, and leverage—not by AI tool choice—and a small set of exemplars like Linear, Cursor, Vercel, and Stripe share structural practices like writing-driven culture, design-engineer fusion, spec-driven development, tiny teams, and ruthless quality habits.
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