agents-md-setup SKILL.md skillA

agents-md-setup from stealth-factory/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stealth-factory/skills/agents-md-setup@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
stealth-factory/skills
Path
skills/agents-md-setup/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Aug 15, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 18, 2026
Size
6,450 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Set up a project's agent instructions as a single source of truth — AGENTS.md as the real file, with CLAUDE.md (and optionally other agents' files) as symlinks to it. Use when starting/bootstrapping a repo, when asked to "add a CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md", "set up project conventions / agent instructions", "make Claude use AGENTS.md", or when a repo has a standalone CLAUDE.md that should become cross-tool. Also use to fix duplicated/drifting CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md, or to add per-workspace…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# agents-md-setup

Make **`AGENTS.md` the single source of truth** for agent/project instructions,
and point every tool's file at it via **symlink**. One file, read by all agents —
no duplication, no drift.

## Why this layout

- `AGENTS.md` is the emerging cross-tool standard (Cursor, Codex, and others read
  it).
- Claude Code reads `CLAUDE.md`. You **cannot** make the harness read `AGENTS.md`
  instead via a prompt or a skill — but a **symlink** `CLAUDE.md → AGENTS.md`
  means Claude opens `CLAUDE.md` and gets `AGENTS.md`'s content. That *is* the
  mechanism; nothing else is needed. *(True as of 2026-07: native `AGENTS.md`
  support is still an open request — [anthropics/claude-code#34235](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/34235).
  Re-verify against the [changelog](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
  before relying on it; if Claude Code gains native `AGENTS.md` support the
  symlink becomes optional.)*
- Result: edit `AGENTS.md` only; every agent stays in sync.

## Decision: what's already there?

1. **Neither file** → create `AGENTS.md` from the template below.
2. **Only `CLAUDE.md` (a real file)** → make it the source of truth:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stealth-factory/skills/agents-md-setup@sha256:ac95fe01cca8ba19

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_2hvf6fcna5k2dn4d.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2hvf6fcna5k2dn4d)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Aug 15, 2026, about one every 20 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.1.0 latest2026-08-15 9b11598 6,450 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-07-02 fb71220 6,449 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-18 b7633c3 4,925 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-18 dda4141 3,705 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6450 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

stealth-factory/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2hvf6fcna5k2dn4d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stealth-factory/skills/agents-md-setup
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac95fe01cca8ba198320a334b6329f991dab7325f91328db65d549da4744f2c6

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