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docs: add AGENTS.md for AI agent guidance (#837) (#840)
* feat: add AGENNTS.md



* refactor: update based on copilot feedback



* refactor: update AGENTS.md



* refactor: update based on AI suggestion



* refactor: based on comments



* refactor: some files



* refactor: boundaries.md



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Signed-off-by: Andy Lee <andy.lee@suse.com>
Co-authored-by: Andy Lee <andy.lee@suse.com>
2026-04-29 16:10:19 +08:00

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# Agents.md
This folder contains files used to construct a single root `AGENTS.md`
We do this because
- The single commonality between almost all AI tools is that they look for a root `AGENTS.md`
- Having the information in a single place for all AI tools is better than duplicating and maintaining the information in multiple files for each AI tool
## Process
1. Add files to or update files in `./docs/agents.md/agents`, `./docs/agents.md/personas`, `./docs/agents.md/contributors`.
2. Each file must
- Start markdown headers at the `##` level
- End in a new line
- Order contents in AGENTS.md by giving an optional number prefix
3. Run `yarn agents:generate`.
- Take the contents of `./docs/agents.md/template_agents.md`
- Insert the contents of the agents, personas and contributors files
- Output to `./AGENTS.md`
4. Commit all changes, including root `./AGENTS.md` and any files that link to it
## Guidance
### Examples
When referencing code or configuration it's good to include an example
## Future Tasks
- Add real world examples when referencing code
- Create a GH workflow to monitor `agents.md` folder files in a PR, if changed run generate script and add new AGENTS.md to PR
- Discuss
- Three multi AI tool related questions
- Questions
- how AI specific patterns, like co-pilot instructions, can be expressed in a way to be adopted by or reduce duplication with the root agents.md
- how AI tool specific metadata code can be included
- multiple agents vs personas approach works
- Proposal
- Generic information applicable to all AI tools is added to the root `agents.md`
- Agent, instruction or other AI specific files or patterns can be used in files specific to that AI tool. They must not contain duplicate information to the root `agents.md`
- The root `agents.md` continues to be AI tool agnostic
- How can folder specific agents be used
- Proposal
- `agents.md` are added to folders as long as most LLMs can make use of them and they do not duplicate information in the root `agents.md`
## Test Prompts
To validate LLMs are picking up information consider running the following prompts.
### Information
Can they provide correct information?
- `what's this project about?`
- `can you tell me the process for fixing a github issue in this repo?`
- `what makes a good software developer?`
- `what should never be done in this project?`
- `what are the folders in this project for?`
- `what are the env vars i could use when running e2e tests?`
### Actions
Can they use the information in their actions?
Pending