Glossary

AGENTS.md

Also: AGENTS.md

An open file format of instructions for coding agents, supported by Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI and many others; the nearest AGENTS.md takes precedence.

Example

One AGENTS.md at the repo root is read by different agents, and CLAUDE.md pulls it in with an @AGENTS.md line.

Where it shows up

First-time setup of an AI agent — Post 2 of 8

Related terms

CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.local.md Cursor rules.cursor/rules

Source

AGENTS.md