AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md is a repo or site file that tells coding or browsing agents how to work with a project: commands, conventions, pitfalls.
On GitHub it is for contributors and coding agents. On a product site it can list how to run tasks. It is not llms.txt.
Keep it short. Agents ignore novels.
Examples
- A repo AGENTS.md says “use pnpm, don’t commit dist, tests live in /e2e.”
- A website AGENTS.md that duplicates the marketing homepage is noise.
Related terms
Agentic search is when software plans, browses, clicks, and compares instead of answering in one shot.
llms.txt is a Markdown file at the site root that tells AI crawlers what the site is and which pages to read first. It is not a second robots.txt with legal teeth.
Anthropic’s open standard for connecting models to tools and data. Reddex exposes MCP for agents that should query visibility, not scrape HTML.
FAQ
Do I put secrets in AGENTS.md? +
No. It is often public. Point to env templates instead.
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