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AGENTS.md

Atomic-Spec AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from Chappygo-OS/Atomic-Spec. It costs 5,287 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for adding support for another AI coding agent to Atomic Spec, a framework that guides work through Specify, Plan, Tasks, and Implement phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when extending Atomic Spec with a new agent, updating its templates, or checking how agent matching and support tiers work.
Why use it?
They explain the framework, its command-line setup tool, supported agents, and the conventions needed for a new integration.

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Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: $ARGUMENTS substitution, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is Chappygo-OS/Atomic-Spec's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on Atomic-Spec itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Atomic-Spec configures →

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AGENTS.md · 523 lines

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AGENTS.md — Adding a New AI Agent to Atomic Spec

About Atomic Spec and the atomicspec CLI

Atomic Spec is a governance framework for AI-driven development — a customized fork of GitHub Spec Kit that enforces the Atomic Traceability Model (gated, atomic, context-pinned phases). See atomic-traceability-model.md for the governance model.

The atomicspec CLI (PyPI package: atomic-spec) bootstraps projects with the framework. It sets up the necessary directory structures, templates, and AI-agent integrations to support the four-phase Specify → Plan → Tasks → Implement workflow.

The framework supports 17+ AI coding assistants across two tiers:

  • Supported tier (wired end-to-end, exercised on every release): claude, gemini, copilot, cursor-agent, windsurf
  • Experimental tier (template-enforced governance, best-effort triage): qwen, opencode, codex, kilocode, auggie, codebuddy, qoder, roo, q, amp, shai, bob

Agent matching for subagents is dynamic: keyword overlap between feature descriptions and YAML frontmatter description fields — no hard-coded agent lists in command templates.

This guide explains how to add a new agent to the supported or experimental tier.


General practices

  • Any changes to src/specify_cli/__init__.py require a version rev in pyproject.toml and an entry in CHANGELOG.md.
  • Agent metadata (AGENT_CONFIG and ATOMIC_SPEC_COMMANDS) lives in src/specify_cli/_config.py — a stdlib-only module that the release workflow imports via importlib.util without installing CLI dependencies.

Adding New Agent Support

This section explains how to add support for new AI agents/assistants to the Specify CLI. Use this guide as a reference when integrating new AI tools into the Spec-Driven Development workflow.

Overview

Specify supports multiple AI agents by generating agent-specific command files and directory structures when initializing projects. Each agent has its own conventions for:

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Atomic-Spec AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Chappygo-OS/Atomic-Spec (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,287 tokens to every session, about $0.0211 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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