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# AGENTS.md

An agent organization structured as a company: 16 departments, 172 skills, each department installable on its own.

This file describes the repository to an agent working *on* it. The skills under `plugins/` are a different thing — they describe how to do the work of a function, and they load when a request matches their description.

## Installing, in either tool

The skills are identical. Only the manifests differ, and both are generated from the same tree, so a skill fixed once is fixed for both.

| | Manifests |

|---|---|

| Claude Code | `plugins/<department>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`, `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` |

| ChatGPT / Codex | `plugins/<department>/.codex-plugin/plugin.json`, `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json` |

## Before you open a pull request

```

./scripts/check-all.sh

```

Every check CI runs, in one script — the workflow calls this same file, so the two cannot drift. Stage new files first: the surface guard reads `git ls-files`, so an unstaged file is invisible to it and the check passes locally then fails in CI.

## Rules that are enforced rather than suggested

- **One owner per path.** `docs/AGENT-SURFACES.md` maps every tracked path to exactly one agent, and no two owners may claim the same path. A new department adds its roster row, its surface block and its charter in the same change.

- **Generated files are never hand-edited.** The README, the org chart, the social card, each skill's `references/sources.md`, and these manifests are all emitted from the tree and verified with `--check`. An edit to one is lost on the next regenerate.

- - **US English**, by exact word form. `scripts/check-us-english.py --fix` rewrites.

+ - **Sources are references, never copies.** `sources/*.toml` maps outside authorities to the skills they settle questions for, and `scripts/build-sources.py` emits each skill's list into its own `references/sources.md`. The `license` field decides whether an agent may quote a source or only cite it — most of what a professional must cite is not open, so when torn between two classes take the more restrictive one.

+ - **Verticals emit one way.** `verticals/<slug>/` plus the core emits a standalone repository via `scripts/build-vertical.py`. Generated output is never hand-edited and is not committed; `--verify` emits to a temporary directory and runs the emitted repository's own checks instead.

+ - **US English**, by exact word form. `scripts/check-us-english.py --fix` rewrites. It leaves URLs alone, which it did not always do.

- **No third-party licensed content.** All prose here is original; `scripts/check-provenance.py` is the backstop.

## Departments

- `executive` — Office of the CEO

- `technology` — Technology

- `it-operations` — IT Operations

- `product` — Product

- `marketing` — Marketing

- `demand-generation` — Demand Generation

- `revenue` — Revenue

- `finance` — Finance

- `operations` — Operations

- `pmo` — Program Management Office

- `people` — People

- `legal-risk` — Legal & Risk

- `security` — Security

- `customer-experience` — Customer Experience

- `data-analytics` — Data & Analytics

- `corporate-strategy` — Corporate Strategy