AGENTS.md, Kept True: Stop the Rot Step by Step (and Watch Your Agent Trust It)
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Practical guide for maintaining AGENTS.md to ensure agent trust, highly actionable and novel.
Summary
An AGENTS.md file goes stale the moment code moves, causing LLM agents to trust outdated instructions. The fix: tie every line to a repo fact (run commands before pasting, point at configs instead of restating rules), define guardrails and a Definition of Done, and enforce that AGENTS.md updates happen in the same PR as code changes. Treating the file as code—verified by watching the agent execute a real task—stops the rot and builds agent trust.