AGENTS.md, Hands-On: Build One Step by Step (and Watch an Agent Use It)
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Hands-on guide for building AGENTS.md, directly actionable for agent orchestration.
Summary
AGENTS.md is a repo-root markdown file that tells AI coding agents how to work in a project—build steps, test commands, conventions, and guardrails. This hands-on guide builds one for a Python URL shortener (FastAPI, SQLite, pytest), adding sections for orientation, setup, test feedback loop (pytest, ruff, mypy), structure map, and commit rules. The article demonstrates that agents using this file produce fewer errors and align with project standards.