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AGENTS.md from dzhng/duet-agent is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dzhng/duet-agent/AGENTS.md@git:20261021.e955131

Pins git:20261021.e955131 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
AGENTS.md file
Repository
dzhng/duet-agent
Path
AGENTS.md
Versions recorded
11
Latest version
git:20261021.e955131, committed Oct 21, 2026
First version recorded
May 24, 2026
Size
7,262 bytes
Repository stars
50
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

# Working in this repo

Read [`README.md`](README.md) first: what the product is, how the repo fits together, and how to build and check it. Active plans live with their specs, and each one says what to do next. If a folder you're working in has a readme, read it before continuing. The readmes are written for you.

These are the principles. Commands, flags and paths live with the code that owns them: the readmes, the manifests, and each tool's own usage text.

## Talking to the user

The user is very technical but doesn't read the code day to day. Pointing at code is fine; introduce a variable, function or module briefly the first time you mention it.

Lead with contracts. When work touches an interface between components (a command or the events it emits, the protocol a host speaks to the runner, a config field, a saved state shape, a module boundary), say what the contract looks like and how it changed before anything else.

Answer routine questions from the evidence. Ask the user only when the answer changes a decision that matters and can't be settled any other way.

## Proving a change
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dzhng/duet-agent/AGENTS.md@sha256:e9d30800ac0c640d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261021.e955131, 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 11 versions of this file, between May 24, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, about one every 15 days.

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  • 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
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

dzhng/duet-agent · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p7rk6yzv3azfaffr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dzhng/duet-agent/AGENTS.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e9d30800ac0c640dc932afe3066f3b12b3b5f892cd3e0525244c34ca212db14d

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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