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AGENTS.md from cotal-ai/cotal is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/AGENTS.md@git:20261104.5d6a29aPins git:20261104.5d6a29a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- AGENTS.md file
- Repository
- cotal-ai/cotal
- Path
AGENTS.md- Versions recorded
- 35
- Latest version
- git:20261104.5d6a29a, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 23,869 bytes
- Repository stars
- 380
- License
- Apache-2.0
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What the file says
# AGENTS.md Guidance for any coding agent (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Cursor, and others) working in this repo. This is the **canonical** agent guide; `CLAUDE.md` points here. Keep your answers short and to the point. ## What this is **Cotal** is a standard wire interface for software, especially AI agents, to coordinate in real time. The wire contract (subjects, message schemas, presence/discovery conventions) *is* the standard; libraries are thin clients over it. Transport is **NATS + JetStream**; the reference implementation is **TypeScript**. **Thin waist, real substance, guarded core:** - **Thin waist** — the normative wire contract (subjects, schemas, presence/discovery, delivery semantics, the owner+actor auth grammar) is the standard. - **Pluggable edges** — identity, transport, storage, secrets, discovery, payments are adapters over existing building blocks. Compose, don't reinvent (e.g. any OIDC IdP plugs in via a thin auth-callout adapter). - **Not hollow** — the substance is the contract *and its guarantees*, the reference implementation, and the local operator tooling; not a bare shim. …
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How to install
mdr add cotal-ai/cotal/AGENTS.md@sha256:57effe0ccf5a9e23The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.5d6a29a, 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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Source
cotal-ai/cotal · 380 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
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