agentic-agile-template AGENTS.md

An instruction file for Microsoft’s Agentic-Agile Template, a starter structure for teams developing software with coding agents. It serves as the main orientation guide for agents entering the repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain what the repository contains and where important files live. It also directs agents to the correct starting procedure based on the project’s state.
Why use it?
It gives an unfamiliar coding agent the project context, repository map, role, and onboarding steps needed to work safely.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/microsoft/agentic-agile-template/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agentic-agile-template

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 2,338 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-agile-template AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[Project Name]

Universal agent entry point. Any agent reading this repository cold starts here. This file is both orientation reference and onboarding orchestrator.


What This Is

This repository is built on the Agentic-Agile Template — a starter framework for teams adopting structured human-agent collaboration. It provides the process layer that makes agent partnerships repeatable: structured backlogs, spec-first stories, platform adapter context files, built-in governance, and continuous measurement.

This file (AGENTS.md) is the single canonical entry point for all AI coding agents. Read it completely before taking any action in the repository. It detects which state the repository is in and routes you to the right starting point.


Repo Map

Path Purpose
AGENTS.md This file. Universal agent entry point and onboarding orchestrator.
README.md Human-facing project overview and getting-started guide.
MANIFESTO.md The Agentic-Agile Manifesto: 5 values and 13 principles for human-agent development.
STYLE.md Code conventions, commit message format, PR structure, documentation standards.
CONTRIBUTING.md Human contribution workflow and PR guidelines.
SECURITY.md Security policy and vulnerability reporting process.
mcp.json Example MCP server configuration for agent tooling.
platform-adapters/ Layered agent / tracker / CI-CD context. Three sub-layers: agent-tools/ (one adapter per AI agent), issue-trackers/ (one per backlog system), ci-cd/ (planned v2), plus combos/ for pre-assembled stacks.
docs/agent-surface-selection.md Guide to choosing the right agent surface for different task types.
docs/evaluation-framework.md Eight-dimension framework for measuring human-agent partnership effectiveness.
docs/epic-decomposition-example.md Worked example: decompose an epic into stories, assign file ownership, plan waves.
docs/history/ Implementation plan and design history (Phase 1/Phase 2 multi-platform generalization).
.github/copilot-instructions.md GitHub Copilot-specific instruction file.
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/agentic-story.md Structured story template with scope, file ownership, and acceptance criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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agentic-agile-template AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agentic-agile-template (88 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,338 tokens to every session, about $0.0117 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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