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 "id": "coding-agent-instructions",
 "name": "Coding agent instruction files",
 "aliases": [
  "CLAUDE.md",
  "GEMINI.md",
  ".cursorrules"
 ],
 "definition_md": "**`AGENTS.md`** is an open repository and origin convention (`agents.md`, stewarded under the Linux Foundation AAIF) for placing machine-targeted instructions—build commands, test runners, architectural invariants, and endpoint conventions—at the root of a git repository or website (`/AGENTS.md`). While `README.md` is written for human contributors and `/llms.txt` is an index of documentation pages, `AGENTS.md` (alongside tool-specific files such as `CLAUDE.md` and `GEMINI.md`) acts as the procedural constitution for coding and web agents operating against that codebase or domain. Used by: agents-md.",
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  "llms-txt"
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://agents.md",
   "date": "2026-09-05",
   "label": "VERIFIED"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/AGENTS.md",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "label": "VERIFIED"
  }
 ],
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 "group": null,
 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/terms/coding-agent-instructions/",
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 "category": "read",
 "type": "term"
}