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Glossary: Coding with AI Assistants

AGENTS.md

Also written: agents.md

A Markdown instruction file in the project folder that Claude Code, Copilot and Cursor can all read. Kettle & Crane uses it to tell assistants to use Decimal for money, write tests first and keep secrets out of code.

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Instruction fileCLAUDE.mdMarkdown