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Agents.md

AGENTS.md complements this by containing the extra, sometimes detailed context coding agents need, with build steps, tests, and conventions that might clutter a README or aren’t relevant to human contributors.

    A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.

    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.

    License: MIT License

    Tags: Discovery

    Properties: name, description, images, created, modified, URLs, versions, tags, properties, media types, data, common properties, overlays, includes, networks, maintainers

    Website: https://agents.md/