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agents-md from ghosteken/agent-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/agents-md@git:20260721.efafd9c

Pins git:20260721.efafd9c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ghosteken/agent-harness
Path
archive/skills-community/agents-md/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260721.efafd9c, committed Jul 21, 2026
Size
4,752 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

This skill should be used when the user asks to "create AGENTS.md", "update AGENTS.md", "maintain agent docs", "set up CLAUDE.md", or needs to keep agent instructions concise. Enforces research-backed best practices for minimal, high-signal agent documentation.

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

# Maintaining AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is the canonical agent-facing documentation. Keep it minimal—agents are capable and don't need hand-holding. Target under 60 lines; never exceed 100. Instruction-following quality degrades as document length increases.

## When to Use
- The user asks to create, update, or audit `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md`.
- The project needs concise, high-signal agent instructions derived from the actual toolchain and repo layout.
- Existing agent documentation is too long, duplicated, or drifting away from real project conventions.

## File Setup

1. Create `AGENTS.md` at project root
2. Create symlink: `ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md`

## Before Writing

Analyze the project to understand what belongs in the file:

1. **Package manager** — Check for lock files (`pnpm-lock.yaml`, `yarn.lock`, `package-lock.json`, `uv.lock`, `poetry.lock`)
2. **Linter/formatter configs** — Look for `.eslintrc`, `biome.json`, `ruff.toml`, `.prettierrc`, etc. (don't duplicate these in AGENTS.md)
3. **CI/build commands** — Check `Makefile`, `package.json` scripts, CI configs for canonical commands
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ghosteken/agent-harness/agents-md@sha256:e198718a68c11d2f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.efafd9c, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_dfkivmgz6zlpgtii.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_dfkivmgz6zlpgtii)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260721.efafd9c latest2026-07-21 efafd9c 4,752 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 (4752 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

ghosteken/agent-harness · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dfkivmgz6zlpgtii
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ghosteken/agent-harness/agents-md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e198718a68c11d2f21b72058247f655b219eb4f7e79aa679ca7721fe5612c4d0

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