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AGENTS.md

cowork-forge AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from sopaco/cowork-forge. It costs 2,947 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

Project instructions that give an AI coding agent context about Cowork Forge, an AI-based software development platform. They describe its Rust workspace, development setup, agents, pipeline, tools, and project conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Orienting an agent in Cowork Forge, setting up its development environment, and guiding work across its Rust crates, pipeline, agents, tools, and integrations.
Why use it?
They help an agent understand the repository structure and prerequisites before changing code, reducing confusion about where features belong.

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Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

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AGENTS.md — Cowork Forge

This file provides AI coding agents with the context needed to work effectively on this project.


Project Overview

Cowork Forge is an AI-native multi-agent software development platform. It orchestrates specialized AI agents (Product Manager, Architect, Project Manager, Engineer) through a 7-stage pipeline to transform ideas into production-ready software.

Workspace Structure

crates/
├── cowork-core/         # Domain logic, pipeline, tools, agents (MAIN crate)
│   └── src/
│       ├── pipeline/    # 7-stage orchestration & stage executor
│       ├── domain/      # Project, Iteration, Memory aggregates
│       ├── tools/       # 40+ ADK tools + MCP integration
│       ├── agents/      # Agent wrappers (iterative, PM, legacy analyzer)
│       ├── interaction/ # InteractiveBackend trait (CLI/GUI abstraction)
│       ├── acp/         # Agent Client Protocol for external agents
│       ├── config_definition/  # Data-driven config (agents, stages, flows)
│       ├── instructions/       # Agent prompt library
│       ├── skills/      # agentskills.io standard skill system
│       ├── integration/ # Hook manager for external integrations
│       └── persistence/ # JSON-based storage
├── cowork-cli/          # CLI adapter (clap + dialoguer)
└── cowork-gui/          # Tauri + React GUI
    ├── src-tauri/       # Rust backend (Tauri commands + events)
    └── src/             # React frontend (TypeScript + Ant Design)

Dev Environment Setup

Prerequisites

  • Rust (edition 2024, stable toolchain)
  • Node.js (for GUI frontend build)
  • LLM API Key (OpenAI-compatible endpoint)

Build

# Build entire workspace
cargo build

# Release build
cargo build --release

# Build GUI only (installs frontend deps automatically)
cd crates/cowork-gui && cargo tauri dev

Run

# CLI
cargo run --package cowork-cli -- <command>

# GUI (development mode)
cd crates/cowork-gui && cargo tauri dev

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cowork-forge AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sopaco/cowork-forge (103 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,947 tokens to every session, about $0.0118 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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