AGENTS.md Template

Use assets/AGENTS.md.template as the canonical source. Render it with assets/render.sh — do not regenerate the structure verbatim from this file. This page documents the sections and their intent; the asset file is what gets written to the target repo.

bash assets/render.sh assets/AGENTS.md.template \
  REPO_DESCRIPTION="One sentence. What this is. Who depends on it." \
  STACK_DESCRIPTION="Runtime, framework, deploy target." \
  WORKFLOW_DESCRIPTION="Deploy process, review gates, environments." \
  OFF_LIMITS="Paths no agent touches without explicit human instruction." \
  COORDINATOR_ROLE="coordinator" \
  ROSTER_ROWS="| app | src/, tests/ | release (deploys), reviewer (pre-merge) |" \
  CONVENTIONS="Naming, formatting, commit message format." \
  DATE="YYYY-MM-DD" \
  Q1_ANSWER="<verbatim answer to last-change-shipped question>" \
  OFF_LIMITS_ANSWER="<verbatim answer to never-want-agent-to-do question>" \
  PAIN_POINTS="  - \"<from interview>\"" \
  MODELS="  coordinator: <model-id>"

Section intent (for reference)

Section	Purpose
## How to invoke agents	Always include the section; keep only the per-tool subsections in the confirmed manifest — see references/setup-agents-build.md Step 7
## Repo	One sentence — what this is and who depends on it
## Stack	Runtime, framework, deploy target — one line each
## How we work	Deploy process in plain English, review gates, environments
## Off-limits	Paths no agent touches without explicit human instruction
## Agent roster	Table: agent → owned paths → handoff targets
## Conventions	Naming, formatting, commit message format
metadata block	Machine-readable — read by upgrade and add modes

Metadata block

Always use YAML literal block scalars (|) for q1 and off-limits — the developer's answer will contain colons, punctuation, and special characters that corrupt inline YAML strings.

<!-- setup-agents metadata
generated: YYYY-MM-DD
q1: |
  <verbatim answer — safe to contain colons, quotes, backticks>
off-limits: |
  <verbatim answer>
pain-points:
  - "<from interview>"
models:
  coordinator: <chosen model-id>
  app: <chosen model-id>
-->

Read with: sed -n '/<!-- setup-agents metadata/,/-->/p' AGENTS.md