# AGENTS.md

## Project purpose

You are maintaining **dotagents**, a draft, vendor-neutral convention for organizing project context for AI coding agents.

Prioritize clarity, interoperability, safety, and consistency between the proposal and its checked-in examples.

## Context routing

- **Before changing documentation or examples:** READ `CONTRIBUTING.md`.
- **When checking release or version history:** READ `CHANGELOG.md`.
- **When changing terminology or directory semantics:** READ `docs/terminology.md`.
- **When making a structural or naming decision:** CONSULT `docs/decisions.md`.
- **When working on an active proposal:** CHECK `docs/specs/README.md`.
- **When reviewing the convention:** ADOPT `.agents/personas/standards-reviewer.md`.

## Validation

- After changing this router or routed files, use `.agents/skills/validate-context-routes/SKILL.md`.