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by rdegges 132 days ago
This is such a great idea. When I'm building net-new projects, I typically end up working with the AI assistant to build a comprehensive AGENTS.md as the first thing before any work gets done: specify tools, dependencies, architecture requirements, style, etc.

I end up getting way better quality.

The same is true for existing projects, but it always takes a whole lot longer as I'm typically chatting with my AI assistant to figure out what conventions are there that I forgot, etc., before building an AGENTS.md to make future changes simpler.

Love how this takes care of that.

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Thank you! The idea is that static analysis can recover most of the mechanical truth of a repo (stack, commands, layout), and then you can layer intentional constraints on top if you want. If this saves even a few of those back-and-forth setup chats, it’s doing its job. Feel free to contribute if you find the right fit