I want you to refactor my AGENTS.md file to follow progressive disclosure principles.
Follow these steps:
1. **Find contradictions**: Identify any instructions that conflict with each other. For each contradiction, ask me which version I want to keep.
2. **Identify the essentials**: Extract only what belongs in the root AGENTS.md:
- One-sentence project description
- Package manager (if not npm)
- Non-standard build/typecheck commands
- Anything truly relevant to every single task
3. **Group the rest**: Organize remaining instructions into logical categories (e.g., TypeScript conventions, testing patterns, API design, Git workflow). For each group, create a separate markdown file.
4. **Create the file structure**: Output:
- A minimal root AGENTS.md with markdown links to the separate files
- Each separate file with its relevant instructions
- A suggested docs/ folder structure
5. **Flag for deletion**: Identify any instructions that are:
- Redundant (the agent already knows this)
- Too vague to be actionable
- Overly obvious (like "write clean code")If you're starting to get nervous about the AGENTS.md file in your repo, and you want to refactor it to use progressive disclosure, try copy-pasting this prompt into your coding agent
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