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AGENTS.md is read on every task, so a policy that matters to one class of change costs context on all the others. This splits how the project works from how it writes, so each loads when it applies, and makes both discoverable to humans rather than only to agents.

The root file becomes a router. It carries what should always be visible — what the repository is, where things live, and the change discipline every diff is held to — then points at one document per class of change.

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AGENTS.md            router
CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md
.github/
├── CONTRIBUTING.md  how we work: setup, the gates, tests, docs, releases, pull requests
└── WRITING.md       how we write: README, CHANGES, release notes, docstrings, comments, commits

What moved

Nothing was deleted without a destination. Environment, commands, gates, testing strategy and fixtures moved to .github/CONTRIBUTING.md. Docstring conventions, doctest rules, changelog conventions, code-block rules, the comment gates and slop prevention moved to .github/WRITING.md, along with the whole of docs/AGENTS.md ("Documentation voice"), which is prose policy and now has one home.

Verification

Every gate was run, and the doctest collection count was recorded before and after. Documented examples are executed by pytest, so a preserved example that stopped being collected would be an invisible test deletion — the count is the proof it did not happen.

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AGENTS.md goes from 985 lines to 66, across 11 changed files. No source, test, or CI file is touched.

why: AGENTS.md is read on every task, so a policy that matters to one
class of change costs context on all the others. Splitting how we work
from how we write lets each be loaded when it applies, and keeps both
discoverable to humans rather than only to agents.

what:
- Replace the AGENTS.md body with a router: the project map grouped by
  the workspace's own tiers, universal change discipline, then one
  pointer per class of change
- Add .github/WRITING.md for prose policy: voice, the docs/ authoring
  conventions merged in from docs/AGENTS.md, the corrected doctest
  mechanism (Markdown under docs/ and README.md is not collected —
  only .py under testpaths is), the Django-style CHANGES convention,
  docstrings, Sphinx/MyST role and {include} conventions, CSS naming,
  source comments, and slop prevention
- Add .github/CONTRIBUTING.md for workflow policy: setup (including
  the pnpm/Node requirement and its SPHINX_VITE_BUILDER_SKIP escape
  hatch), the real CI gate commands, code style, the full test
  hierarchy and fixture reference, docs build, and releasing
- Delete docs/AGENTS.md, docs/CLAUDE.md, and .github/contributing.md
  (lowercase), now absorbed into the files above
- Turn docs/project/contributing.md and docs/project/code-style.md
  into pointer pages at the canonical .github/ files ({include} does
  not carry relative links across a directory boundary here, per the
  fleet's settled finding)
- Trim packages/sphinx-vite-builder/AGENTS.md to what is package
  specific, route it to the root docs, and correct two stale claims
  (the Sphinx extension is not a Phase 1 placeholder; it has no
  long-lived watch process) plus a stale actions/setup-node pin
- Replace the sphinx-vite-builder CLAUDE.md pointer file with a real
  symlink to AGENTS.md, matching the root
- Add the alpha warning to README.md and reflow it to 80 columns
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@tony tony changed the title Docs(refactor[agents]): Route instead of restate docs: Standardize via CONTRIBUTING.md + WRITING.md Aug 22, 2026
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