Instruction Context

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# Instruction & context

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| | Convention | Files | Read by | Spec |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 🟢 | [AGENTS.md](../conventions/agents-md/) | `AGENTS.md` | Most coding agents - OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Jules, Aider, Gemini CLI, Zed, and others | [spec ↗](https://agents.md) |
| 🟢 | [CLAUDE.md](../conventions/claude-md/) | `CLAUDE.md` | Claude Code, and tools that read the Claude memory convention | [spec ↗](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory) |
| 🟢 | [Tool-specific instruction files](../conventions/tool-specific-instructions/) | `GEMINI.md` `AGENT.md` `QWEN.md` `WARP.md` `CONVENTIONS.md` `copilot-instructions.md` | Each file is read by its namesake tool - Gemini CLI, Amp, Qwen Code, Warp, Aider, GitHub Copilot - often alongside or as a bridge to AGENTS.md | [spec ↗](https://agents.md) |
| 🟠 | [OKF (Open Knowledge Format)](../conventions/okf/) | `.md` | Agents over MCP (okfy, openknowledge, superops okf CLIs); Google's knowledge-catalog ingests bundles | [spec ↗](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/tree/main/okf) |

## [AGENTS.md](../conventions/agents-md/)

A plain-Markdown "README for agents" - build/test commands, conventions, and gotchas an agent needs before touching the code. The most widely adopted cross-tool instruction file.

## [CLAUDE.md](../conventions/claude-md/)

Anthropic's memory file for Claude Code - loaded automatically at session start to carry project commands, style rules, and standing instructions across turns.

## [Tool-specific instruction files](../conventions/tool-specific-instructions/)

Per-tool instruction files that predate or coexist with AGENTS.md. Some tools now default to AGENTS.md while keeping legacy filenames alive, so these variants still matter when auditing real repositories.

## [OKF (Open Knowledge Format)](../conventions/okf/)

A machine-first organizational knowledge base: a version-controlled folder of typed Markdown files (one concept per file) that any agent reads as ground-truth context. Open-sourced by Google Cloud in 2026 as the content layer to MCP's transport.

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo ItamarZand88/awesome-agent-conventions (MIT). A "Instruction Context" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.