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title: "agent-rules"
description: "Generate and maintain AGENTS.md, copilot-instructions.md, and other agent rule files"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-rules
last-updated: 2026-09-22
---

# agent-rules
Generate and maintain AGENTS.md, copilot-instructions.md, and other agent rule files
- Slug: agent-rules
- Publisher: Netresearch DTT GmbH
- Repository: https://github.com/netresearch/agent-rules-skill
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 3.16.2
- License: (MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Category (editorial): agent-tooling
- Skills: 1 (agent-rules)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 77
- Repository created: 2025-10-18
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-20
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-rules
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What agent-rules does, in the publisher's words

Netresearch AI skill for generating and maintaining AGENTS.md files following the agents.md specification.

> What is AGENTS.md? A context file written for AI coding agents, not humans. Human readability is a side effect, not a goal. Adopted by 60,000+ open-source projects. See the official specification and best practices from 2,500+ repositories.

This skill implements two complementary standards:

- agents.md: The file format this skill generates. A simple Markdown convention for guiding AI coding agents, supported by Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and 60,000+ open-source projects.
- Agent Skills: How this skill is packaged and distributed. A portable format for procedural knowledge that works across AI agents.
- ✅ Claude Code (Anthropic)
- ✅ Cursor
- ✅ GitHub Copilot
- ✅ Other skills-compatible AI agents

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netresearch/agent-rules-skill/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- agent-rules: Use when creating or updating AGENTS.md files,.github/copilot-instructions.md, or other AI agent rule files, onboarding AI agents to a project, standardizing agent documentation, or when anyone mentions AGENTS.md, agent rules, project onboarding, or codebase documentation for AI agents.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.