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Álvaro Tejero-CanteroandAndrey Antukh d8fddf9942 ♻️ Keep agent content on standard paths, drop client shims (#11719)
* ♻️ Keep agent content on standard paths, drop client shims

Agent guidance stays where the ecosystem reads it: AGENTS.md at the
root and the skills in .agents/skills. Codex scans .agents/skills and
follows symlinks, opencode lists it among its discovery locations, and
Cursor, Zed, Warp, Cline and Amp use the same project path.

Claude Code reads neither, so it needed CLAUDE.md and .claude/skills.
Committing those two paths is not a neutral default. Both are
gitignored, git treats ignored files as expendable, and a checkout
that needs the path deletes whatever a contributor keeps there without
a warning. Neither sparse-checkout nor skip-worktree offers a way out,
because both make the next pull abort. The two links are now created
by the contributor, once per clone, and documented in
.agents/README.md.

AGENTS.local.md and .agents/local/ give every client one personal
layer that composes on top of the shared one, instead of one file per
client inside the repository.

sync-workspace seeds the two links for ws1 and above, the way it
already seeds the gitignored config.js, so the devenv workflow does
not change.

AI-assisted-by: claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Tejero Cantero <alvorithm@teje.ro>

* ♻️ Lean on Claude Code reading AGENTS.md, drop the pointer

Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md through the built-in agents-md
plugin, whose default mode loads it in a project that has no
instruction file of its own. Deleting the committed CLAUDE.md is what
turns that on here, so the pointer a Claude user had to create is no
longer part of the setup, and only the .claude/skills link remains:
the plugin covers instruction files, and skills still load from that
path alone.

The instruction that replaces the pointer is a removal. A CLAUDE.md,
.claude/CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md anywhere from the root down to
the working directory hands the project back to CLAUDE.md and hides
this repository's AGENTS.md, while .claude/rules/*.md and the
person's own ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md do not count and stay usable for
personal steering. CLAUDE.local.md joins the ignore list, and a hard
rule in AGENTS.md forbids all three.

The docs name the version, say the fallback has not reached Bedrock,
Vertex or Foundry, and say the stable auto-update channel runs about
a week behind the default one, so the symlink is documented as the
stopgap for those cases and as something to drop afterwards.

sync-workspace seeds the skills link alone for the same reason.

AI-assisted-by: claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Tejero Cantero <alvorithm@teje.ro>

* 📎 Remove skills directory mention on AGENTS.md

Signed-off-by: Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>

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Signed-off-by: Álvaro Tejero Cantero <alvorithm@teje.ro>
Co-authored-by: Andrey Antukh <niwi@niwi.nz>
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