AGENTS.md

Simple, open format for guiding coding agents: a README for agents placed in your repo.

Category: Protocols
Website: https://agents.md/
Repository: https://github.com/agentsmd/agents.md
Status: active
Pricing: open-source
License: MIT
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

coding-agents
repo-conventions
open-format

Description

The site states it is used by over 60k open-source projects. Repo moved from openai/agents.md to agentsmd/agents.md.

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Sources

Machine-readable

JSON
Markdown
Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)