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AGENTS.md from backnotprop/product-engineering is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/AGENTS.md@git:20260826.1ad8694Pins git:20260826.1ad8694 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- AGENTS.md file
- Repository
- backnotprop/product-engineering
- Path
AGENTS.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260826.1ad8694, committed Aug 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 25, 2026
- Size
- 1,963 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
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 — the fence This repository vendors other authors' writing **byte-for-byte** and proves it with hashes. Most files here are not editable, even to fix a typo. Before touching ANY file, look it up in `foundry/MANIFEST.json`. ## The five rules 1. **Never retype vendored content.** Bytes enter this repo only through `foundry/scripts/lift.sh`. If you find yourself reproducing text from an upstream repo in your own output, stop — run the script instead. 2. **Locked files are never edited.** Classes `verbatim`, `verbatim-minus`, and `distilled` are hash-locked; CI fails on one changed character. If a change seems needed, propose it: a re-lift (upstream changed), a ledger ruling (we disagree with the content), or an upstream PR (the content has a bug). Never edit in place. 3. **Every change is a logged event.** Append one line to `foundry/LOG.md` for any provenance-changing action. Scripts log their own actions. Never edit existing lines. 4. **Upstream drift is classified, never auto-merged.** You may draft re-lift PRs and drift issues; only a human merges. See the runbooks. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add backnotprop/product-engineering/AGENTS.md@sha256:f63f631ce444adbcThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260826.1ad8694, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 25, 2026 and Aug 26, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260826.1ad8694 latest | 2026-08-26 | 1ad8694 | 1,963 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.f1cd4fd | 2026-08-25 | f1cd4fd | 1,871 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1963 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
backnotprop/product-engineering · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-08-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4wtfr7yyqk4jr4pk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=backnotprop/product-engineering/AGENTS.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f63f631ce444adbc8e0c4b96c6c5e6b49cb2e574e4a103361bce5fc4dd481101
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