Topic
3 articles found
Part 1 of a 2-part series. This post covers the whole tool and the "one source of truth" problem. Part 2 goes deep on the most novel piece — letting your npm packages ship agent skills. (dev.to shows the series navigation once Part 2 is published.) TL;DR Write project instructions once in AGENTS.md
AI coding agents need context, and that part is obvious by now. What is less obvious is that context quality is only half the problem. The other half is context shape. An instruction file that works well in one repository, one harness, or one workflow can be the wrong format for another. A dense sin
In April 2026, Google Labs released a spec called DESIGN.md. It's a design system specification readable by AI agents, packaged with a CLI validator: npx @google/design.md lint. With DESIGN.md in the picture, we now have three different file types for instructing AI agents. AGENTS.md has been spread