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AI AGENTS.md File #ai #claude #agents #md #progress #gemini #skill

AGENTS.md

Skills

Reusable, file-system based resources that provide Claude with domain-specific expertise:
- Workflows - Context, - Best practices that transform general purpos agents into specialists.

Different Than Prompts

Key benefits

  • Skills load on demand
  • Eliminate the need to repeatedly provide the same guidance across multiple conversations
  • Specialize Claude: Tailor capabilities for domain specific tasks
  • Reduce repetitiion: Create once, use automatically
  • Compose capabilitie
  • Combine skills to build complex workflows

This is a file containing instructions that you would give to a new developer that has never seen your code before.

  • Acts like long term memory
  • Can have AGENTS.md file in every folder
  • Like having sticky notes everywhere

progress.txt

  • App logs to progress.txt file
  • Acts like short term memory
  • What are we doing?/
  • What are we learning?
  • For each Ralph iteration (by id)

Setup commands

  • Insteall deps: pnpm install
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