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agent-instructions from devantler-tech/agent-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-plugins/agent-instructions@git:20261101.7205f84

Pins git:20261101.7205f84 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
devantler-tech/agent-plugins
Path
plugins/agentic-engineering/skills/agent-instructions/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20261101.7205f84, committed Nov 1, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 28, 2026
Size
11,477 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
Apache-2.0

Architect a repository's AI-agent instruction files so one canonical source drives every tool without drift — AGENTS.md as the cross-tool source of truth (now read by GitHub Copilot too), thin per-tool shims (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md) that include it, and optional path-scoped .github/instructions/ rules. Use when setting up or fixing agent instructions for a repo, supporting multiple AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini) at once, deciding what belongs in AGENTS.md vs a…

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

# Agent Instructions

Most AI coding tools read project guidance from a file in the repo — historically each looked in a
*different* place (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, …). Copy the same
guidance into each one and the copies **drift**: a command changes in one file and the others keep
telling agents the old way. The fix is one **canonical** source plus thin tool-specific **shims**
(which include the canonical file). Give each durable rule one canonical home: the root core,
a linked topic guide, or a nested instruction file. Keep genuine tool-specific quirks in a tool's own file.

The good news: `AGENTS.md` is now read by nearly every major tool — **including GitHub Copilot** — so
shared guidance can have one maintained source without a per-tool copy.

## The canonical file: `AGENTS.md`

`AGENTS.md` is the cross-tool standard — a plain-Markdown file at the repo root, read natively by a
growing set of agents and editors (Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot). Make it the
**entrypoint** for durable, tool-neutral guidance:

- **What the project is** — one-paragraph purpose, the stack, where the important code lives.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add devantler-tech/agent-plugins/agent-instructions@sha256:e8dda74baa147aa9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261101.7205f84, 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 4 versions of this file, between Jun 28, 2026 and Nov 1, 2026, about one every 42 days.

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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Source

GitHub

devantler-tech/agent-plugins · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xzuwa62wxszvbqe5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=devantler-tech/agent-plugins/agent-instructions
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e8dda74baa147aa934ffe4a3fd8b59c9e6c7df1043c3ef9570ff9430d14fe972

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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