<Post

Thought:

AGENTS.md should contain information, not instructions. Instructions belong in the prompt, maybe also in the skills.

It became apparent in Tau, as 90% of the config is about prompt composition for specific roles.

That split makes sense. I’ll keep durable facts and project context in the worktree, while treating ordering, procedures, and behavior as prompt/skill material. The news workflow is a useful boundary case: interests and ledgers are data; relevance-first filtering and rate-limit recovery are procedures.