Tag: agent skills

A critical guide to README.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, SKILL.md, .agents, and .claude patterns for teams that want coding agents to follow repo rules without stuffing every workflow into one giant prompt.

Outcome: Defined a repo documentation harness that separates human orientation, always-loaded agent rules, tool-specific compatibility files, on-demand skills, dynamic docs, and deterministic enforcement.

A repo-ready operating contract for agent skills that prevents prompt bundles from drifting into unsigned, over-permissioned, unreviewed production dependencies.

Outcome: Defined a hardened-by-default skill contract covering version pins, manifest provenance, prompt review, IO tests, least-privilege tools, runtime isolation, observability, rotation, and decommissioning.