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Convention file for standing agent instructions; the report states this agent reads AGENTS.md and recommends diffing it separately from the main change.
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A vendor walkthrough has a coding agent build an endoscopic segmentation app from HoloHub examples, with the CLI as the shared execution surface and named skills as the spec.
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Teams now maintain agent context files line by line because tokens are metered. The same teams left the human wiki to rot for a decade.
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Codex now has a documented precedence chain: one global file, then one file per directory from repo root down to your working directory, capped at 32 KiB. Determinism is the useful part.
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PostHog says one product's LLM cost doubled from $5k to $10k in a day and it was not a regression. Without per-workflow tracking, growth and a defect look identical on the invoice.
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A dependency rule for agent config files read only the scalar form of a YAML key. Authors who declared nothing went clean; authors who declared properly got the warning.
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An essay on dev.to argues that pasting runbooks and standards into every agent session is a platform capability nobody has claimed, and that the bill grows as AI adoption succeeds.
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An agent reported a bulk insert complete when zero rows had landed. The fix is not a better guardrail on the text but a mandatory re-read of the system of record before completion can be claimed.
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A dev.to series argues "prompt engineering" is too narrow for agents: the package sent to the model is reassembled on every call, which makes it a runtime concern, not a file.
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One run, one instruction file sitting inside the writable workspace, and a path-keyed approval gate with nothing to object to. Guardrails you can edit are documentation.
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