generate-agents-md

generate-agents-md is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Enterwell/agent-skills. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for creating or improving an AGENTS.md file, which is a repository's durable instruction sheet for AI coding agents. It records project setup, tests, structure, conventions, and safety rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a software repository for agents by documenting how to install dependencies, test and build the project, understand its architecture, and avoid risky changes.
Why use it?
It keeps important project knowledge available to future agents instead of leaving it only in chat messages or scattered documents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to prepare a software repository for agents by documenting how to install dependencies, test and build the project, understand its architecture, and avoid risky changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/enterwell/agent-skills/generate-agents-md
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Enterwell/agent-skills --skill generate-agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Enterwell/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.03003
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01502
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00601
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00300

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6cdd21a8e9a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 8d 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.

skills/generate-agents-md/SKILL.md · 406 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 406 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Generate a Project-Specific AGENTS.md

Purpose

Use this skill to create or improve a root-level AGENTS.md file for a software project. The file should help future AI coding agents understand how to work safely and effectively in the repository.

AGENTS.md is not a replacement for README.md. It should contain concise, durable, repo-specific instructions for agents: how to set up the project, run tests, understand the structure, follow conventions, and avoid risky changes.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user asks to:

  • Create an AGENTS.md file.
  • Improve or audit an existing AGENTS.md file.
  • Generate AI-agent instructions for a repository.
  • Convert repo setup, testing, and contribution knowledge into agent-facing documentation.
  • Prepare a project for local AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, Cursor agents, or similar tools.

Inputs

Expected inputs may include:

  • Access to the project repository.
  • Existing README.md, docs, or contribution guides.
  • Package manager files.
  • Build, test, lint, formatter, framework, Docker, and CI configuration files.
  • Source and test directory structure.
  • Existing agent instruction files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, Cursor rules, Copilot instructions, or similar.

If running inside the project, inspect the repository directly. If the repository is not available, ask the user for the relevant files or produce a template clearly marked as needing verification.

Core principles

  1. Do not invent facts.
  2. Prefer exact commands over vague descriptions.
  3. Keep instructions practical and repo-specific.
  4. Avoid duplicating the README unless the information is useful for coding agents.
  5. Mark uncertain items as Verify: rather than guessing.
  6. Do not include secrets, tokens, credentials, or sensitive internal values.
  7. Keep the document concise, usually under about 150 lines.
  8. Preserve useful existing instructions, but remove outdated or speculative content.
  9. Align the final checklist with CI whenever CI configuration exists.
  10. Document safety boundaries around generated files, migrations, destructive commands, external services, and production data.

Read the full file on GitHub · 406 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 406 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 6cdd21a8e9a1

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generate-agents-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository Enterwell/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,003 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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