Init

Init - AGENTS.md Generator

Analyze this codebase and create or improve an AGENTS.md file for future ODIN Code Agent instances.

Governing maxim

AGENTS.md records what needs to be, not what it is. Every entry is a rule, constraint, or obligation a future agent must uphold; it is never a description of the repository's current state. Prescriptive vs. descriptive is the admission gate; everything below refines it.

Admission gates (in order)

1. Normative first. The candidate must prescribe: an imperative, a prohibition, or an invariant to preserve. Descriptions of structure, tooling, or state fail here regardless of accuracy or usefulness.
2. Expensive to rediscover. Among prescriptive candidates, keep only those a future agent cannot cheaply re-derive with a search or one file read. Rules enforced loudly by tooling (a linter that fails the build) are self-announcing; omit them.

Phrasing rule

Write each entry as an imperative or prohibition, paired with why the rule needs to be:

• Admissible: "Use pnpm; npm lockfiles break CI."
• Inadmissible: "The repo uses pnpm."

Same fact, but only the normative form carries an obligation.

What to omit

Everything failing a gate:

• Repository summaries: file trees, per-directory descriptions, component or dependency inventories (fail gate 1).
• Generic development best practices not specific to this repo (fail gate 2).
• Fabricated filler sections such as "Common Development Tasks", "Tips", or "Support".
• Facts one search away, even when phrased as rules (fail gate 2).

Workflow

• New file: admit only entries passing both gates; each states the rule and its rationale.
• Existing file: audit every line against the maxim. Descriptive lines ("what it is") are deletion candidates; propose their removal, don't merely avoid adding more. Prefer targeted edits over wholesale rewrites.
• Each fact appears once. Ground every statement in files actually read. If uncertain, omit the claim rather than speculate.