Show HN: Evolution of my AGENTS.md

2 points by attogram 19 days ago · 1 comment · 1 min read

The evolution of my AGENTS.md

- v0 - Braindump

- v1 - Organized braindump

- v2 - Strict state machine

- v3 - Loose state machine, md as memory

- v4 - Let's add skills!

- v5 - Shorter prose, more skills

- v6 - Sectioned. Each with

   - Bias via short prose

   - Yaml block of sect structure

   - Deep dive pointer to skills/[section]/SKILL.md

   - define the std sections

- you can NOT instruct llms. You can only introduce bias to token generation.

- repo based memory via .md files is the way

- frequent session restarts saves both money and agent performance