AGENT.md

AGENT.md is a vendor-neutral AI coding agent configuration file format providing project context and instructions for AI agents. It serves as an alternative to AGENTS.md, unifying agent guidance across tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and other AI coding assistants.

AGENT.md is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Agents, AI Copilot, Coding Standards, Developer Workflow, and Configuration.

The AGENT.md catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

AGENT.md’s developer surface includes documentation and 4 more developer resources.

📡 Source on GitHub

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Agent Md Context

9 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

AGENT.md API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AGENT.md Configuration Schema

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Agent Md Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Agent Md Example

9 fields

EXAMPLE

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Source (apis.yml)

aid: agent-md
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agent-md/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: AGENT.md
x-type: convention
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/agent-md.png
tags:
- AI Agents
- AI Copilot
- Coding Standards
- Developer Workflow
- Configuration
- Standards
description: AGENT.md is a vendor-neutral AI coding agent configuration file format providing project context and instructions
  for AI agents. It serves as an alternative to AGENTS.md, unifying agent guidance across tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor,
  Claude, and other AI coding assistants.
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- url: https://github.com/buildkite/agent-stack-k8s/blob/main/AGENT.md
  type: Documentation
- url: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/customizing-copilot/adding-repository-custom-instructions-for-github-copilot
  type: Documentation
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agent-md/refs/heads/main/json-schema/agent-md-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agent-md/refs/heads/main/json-ld/agent-md-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLDContext
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/agent-md/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/agent-md-vocabulary.yaml
  type: Vocabulary
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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