Consolidate agent instructions into AGENTS.md#7984
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Cursor is no longer widely used, so .cursor/rules/base.mdc and docs.mdc duplicated content that should live in a single standard AGENTS.md (https://agents.md/). CLAUDE.md and the Cursor rule now just point to AGENTS.md instead of duplicating its content. Assisted-By: devx/952e932f-652c-498f-8052-b2f61ce56cf7
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Pull request overview
This PR consolidates agent/AI-assistant guidance into a single canonical AGENTS.md, replacing duplicated instructions previously kept in Cursor-specific rule files, and updates other tooling entrypoints to point at AGENTS.md.
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- Expanded
AGENTS.mdto include general coding guidelines and “Further reading” links in addition to the existing changesets policy. - Updated
.claude/CLAUDE.mdand.cursor/rules/base.mdcto become thin pointers toAGENTS.md. - Removed
.cursor/rules/docs.mdcand folded its link content intoAGENTS.md.
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| AGENTS.md | Becomes the canonical, expanded agent-instructions document (guidelines + further reading + changesets). |
| .cursor/rules/docs.mdc | Removed; its content is moved into AGENTS.md. |
| .cursor/rules/base.mdc | Reduced to a pointer to AGENTS.md while keeping required frontmatter. |
| .claude/CLAUDE.md | Simplified to reference AGENTS.md only. |
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What?
Related to https://github.com/shop/issues-develop/issues/22870
Consolidates our agent/AI-assistant instructions into a single standard
AGENTS.md(https://agents.md/) instead of duplicating them across Cursor-specific rule files.Why?
We were maintaining the same guidance in two places:
AGENTS.md(changesets policy only).cursor/rules/base.mdc(full coding guidelines + changesets policy, duplicated).cursor/rules/docs.mdc(links to docs)Cursor isn't widely used on the team anymore, but Claude Code, and other agent tooling already looks for
AGENTS.md. Keeping the full instructions there and pointing everything else at it avoids drift.Changes
AGENTS.md: now the canonical source — merged in the coding guidelines and doc links that used to live only in the Cursor rules..claude/CLAUDE.md: now just points toAGENTS.md..cursor/rules/base.mdc: now a thin pointer toAGENTS.md(kept required frontmatter)..cursor/rules/docs.mdc: removed, content folded intoAGENTS.md.No user-facing behavior change, so no changeset.