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The advice here seems to assume a single .md file with instructions for the whole project, but the AGENTS.md methodology as supported by agents like github copilot is to break out more specific AGENTS.md files in the subdirectories in your code base. I wonder how and if the tips shared change assuming a flow with a bunch of focused AGENTS.md files throughout the code.




Hi, post author here :)

I didn’t dive into that because in a lot of cases it’s not necessary and I wanted to keep the post short, but for large monorepos it’s a good idea




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