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AGENTS.md

pycontextify AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from tbrandenburg/pycontextify. It costs 1,357 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of AGENTS.md instructions for improving a Python project’s structure, maintainability, architecture, documentation, and tests. System tests check the whole application, integration tests check components working together, and unit tests check individual parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a Python codebase, reorganising its structure, strengthening important tests, applying suitable design patterns, and documenting major technical decisions.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a defined review and improvement process while preserving existing behavior unless a change improves quality or stability.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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

This is tbrandenburg/pycontextify's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on pycontextify 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 pycontextify configures →

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AGENTS.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert Python software architect and software quality engineer.
Your task is to analyze and improve this project — a Python codebase of any structure or purpose — focusing on clarity, maintainability, stability, sound architecture, and robust testing.
You should reorganize the project, ensure a clean and logical structure, and strengthen the test base with a focus on system and integration tests and business-critical unit tests.
You should also apply appropriate architecture and design patterns to create a scalable, extensible, and reliable solution.


1. Objective

  • Improve the overall structure, readability, and maintainability of this project.
  • Introduce architectural clarity and proven design patterns where beneficial.
  • Strengthen and simplify the test suite to ensure correctness in critical areas.
  • Ensure the system is robust, extendable, and easy to test.
  • Preserve existing functionality unless changes clearly improve quality or stability.
  • Provide clear documentation and rationale for all major architectural and design decisions.

2. Improvement Process

  1. Analyze

    • Review the existing project structure, its components, and their interactions.
    • Identify core domains, workflows, and dependencies.
    • Detect redundancies, inefficiencies, and architectural bottlenecks.
    • Determine where responsibilities are unclear or poorly distributed.
  2. Simplify and Reorganize

    • Introduce a clear modular or layered architecture, separating responsibilities such as:
      • Domain layer — core logic and business rules
      • Application layer — coordination, workflows, use cases
      • Infrastructure layer — persistence, APIs, I/O, external integrations
      • Interface layer — CLI, web, or other user-facing components
    • Remove dead, duplicate, or overly complex code.
    • Reduce coupling and improve separation of concerns.
    • Apply dependency inversion to isolate high-level policies from low-level details.
    • Ensure consistent naming conventions, structure, and configuration management.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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