The root agent file had accumulated subsystem contracts and reference catalogues that obscured repository-wide rules. Route task-specific work to focused guides so agents load the constraints needed for the files and behavior they change.
- Plan the agent guidance refactor.
- Focus testing and frontend rules.
- Isolate storage guidance.
- Isolate operational guidance.
- Route agent guidance by task.
- Correct the DuckDB schema lifecycle.
- Remove completed planning artifacts.
- Route features and bug fixes through the testing guide.
The root
AGENTS.mdhad grown into an always-loaded mix of repository policy, subsystem contracts, command reference, and troubleshooting history. That made the rules that apply to every task harder to find and allowed copied documentation to drift.This change keeps safety, delivery, completion, and publishing rules in the root file, then routes storage, testing, frontend, build, and background-work tasks to focused guides. It also corrects the stale DuckDB schema-lifecycle note found during the split. The main tradeoff is that agents must follow the routing table before editing a matching part of the repository; the root keeps the critical SQLite preservation warning as a safeguard.
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