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AGENTS.md
Linux Foundation-backed project instruction file for coding agents
About
A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects .
Think of AGENTS.md as a README for agents : a dedicated, predictable place to provide the context and instructions to help AI coding agents work on your project.
README.md files are for humans: quick starts, project descriptions, and contribution guidelines.
AGENTS.md complements this by containing the extra, sometimes detailed context coding agents need: build steps, tests, and conventions that might clutter a README or aren’t relevant to human contributors.
Features
- Project overview
- Build and test commands
- Code style guidelines
- Testing instructions
- Security considerations
- Pricing
- Free
- Pricing detail
- open convention
- Platforms
- Repo root markdown
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