Crosspost cause I see very few people in the RFC channel

Awww stop praising mee sillyyy 😊 Anyway :p Yes, up for it, writing it as descriptive as possible, with the least amount of tokens. Being universal for all nfcore pipelines, as entry point knowledge for agents

why not have all that in a plugin/skill? these things are still evolving changing too much as I would like to have it in the template yet.

Could start with something very little and very standard, like file structure and lint/test commands

these should all be in the contributing.md because also good for non-llm devs...

Then an AGENTS.md that links to other.md files :D

It's an actual thing :p CLAUDE.md redirection to AGENTS.md for example, to not duplicate :p

This PR looks rather stale. Although the AI industry is changing very quickly, it is still true that

AGENTS.md

is the closest there is to a standard.

CONTRIBUTING.md

is pretty close to a functional steering file, although it is optimized for a human contributor, so some sections might not work perfectly (e.g. the part on adding a new step doesn't feel exact enough, plus it references

nf-core pipelines schema build

, which is not agent-friendly as it is).

Split thread 😵 but I said something similar to @mashehu on the other thread

It seems that agents deal pretty well with URLs (as long as you are online), so your idea of having a minimal

AGENTS.md

with a pointer to a live steering file might be the best option

I think a new RFC with minimal scope is more likely to progress, to be honest.

but let's then close the other one, in that case

Let the party begin https://github.com/nf-core/proposals/issues/141

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