Agent Rules :: Agent Rules :: Dev-Centr Docs

Canonical forkable rules and profiles for coding assistants under Dev-Centr. Content is meant to be read by agents from disk or pasted into an app rules field.

Repository: https://github.com/dev-centr/agent-rules
Docs: https://docs.devcentr.org/agent-rules/

What this is

Shared end-user / project agent instructions (user.md, general/, profiles/)
Harness-neutral templates — machine/harness facts in $CODE_ROOT/harness.md and $CODE_ROOT/machine.md
Assembled locally (paste or via rules-manager)
Optional on-demand agent skills under skills/ — start at Bootstrap agent skills

Start here

Editorial titles — cold-reader gate, enthymemic titles, agent self-test
Case study: agent voice vs reader voice — URL-identity rewrite as a cautionary tale
Harness-neutral architecture — rules geography map (layered deltas; personal fork is not HEAD parity)
Changelog — functional history (including layer renames)

What this is not

Not Dev-Centr product automation — that lives in devcentr-agent-rules
Not a place for workstation constants — keep those in $CODE_ROOT/machine.md and $CODE_ROOT/harness.md
Not always-on dumping ground for long curricula — those belong in skills (see skills/BOOTSTRAP.md)