AGENTS.md Explained: The One Config File That Makes AI Coding Agents Actually Useful
If you’ve worked with AI coding assistants and wondered why they keep making the same mistakes — wrong formatting, wrong framework patterns, wrong naming conventions — there’s a good chance the problem isn’t the model. It’s the missing context file. AGENTS.md is a Markdown configuration file now natively parsed by 25+ AI coding tools: OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Devin, and many more. Drop one in your project root, and your entire team’s AI coding tools instantly share the same project context, coding conventions, and tool policies. ...