Awesome AGENTS.md That Can Be Used on Any Agent and Any Stack

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I reverse-engineered popular coding-agent instruction repos and distilled their best ideas into a stack-agnostic AGENTS.md. 📦

The core rules cover small, focused changes, security boundaries, debugging, and verification before an agent says a task is done. More specialized guidance lives in rules/ and is meant to be read when a task calls for it.

Take it for a spin 👉 https://github.com/khasky/awesome-agents-md

One core for the work every agent does.

I wanted a set of rules I could use across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Cursor without rewriting them for each framework or project.

The core lives in one AGENTS.md and covers the parts of a coding task that don't change with the stack: understanding the request, keeping the change focused, handling sensitive data, debugging failures, and checking the result.

The file also sets boundaries. Unless I explicitly ask, the agent shouldn't delete files, rewrite Git history, force-push, or make a...

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