AGENTS.md
A plain markdown file at the root of a repo describing how to work in it — how to build, how to test, what the conventions are. Deliberately tool-neutral, so several AI coding tools read the same file.
Where it comes up
Cursor 2.0 Launch
“plan that you've used in a given kind of billing period. Uh, what's the best shape the best way to shape agent behavior? Is it agents.md cursor rules or something else? Um, all of these abstractions are just ways to get context to the agent…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“that run, that is the stop hook. And so when the stop hook uh is triggered, this will call the continual learning skill. And let's just take a look at this skill. So it's called continual learning. And why don't we just look at it raw. And…”
Cursor Automations
“certain branch is more likely to have more documentation and certain agent.md file or .cursor file, you should go ahead and put that into the instruction for the agent to look more deeply into it. Um and you can choose a choose a model that…”