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docs: simplify agent instructions while preserving requirements - #5565

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Summary

AGENTS.md repeated security, architecture, documentation, and review guidance across several sections. Condense it by about 59%, using condition/action tables and explicit links to existing policy owners while preserving important requirements and exceptions.

Retain concrete compatibility, validation, security, lifecycle, and translation criteria, along with existing inbound anchors. Only AGENTS.md changes.

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  • Compared the complete rewrite with the original and checked delegated requirements against their owning files.
  • Exercised representative runtime, repo-meta, documentation, release, security, compatibility, and concurrency review scenarios.
  • Validated local links, anchors, all tracked Markdown backlinks, and routed skill entrypoints.
  • Ran git diff --check.
  • Completed basic review and the required adversarial review with two consecutive clean rounds after restoring the security checklist anchor.
  • The SDK verification stack and site build are not applicable to this repo-meta-only change.

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  • Applicable scenario and link checks pass; runtime tests are not relevant.
  • I've run .agents/skills/code-change-verification/scripts/run.sh (not applicable: repo-meta only).
  • I've confirmed all applicable verification steps pass.
  • Basic and independent adversarial reviews completed before submission.

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jbeckwith-oai requested review from a team, rm-openai and seratch as code owners November 6, 2026 16:14
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Reviewed the complete rewrite and delegated policy owners. AGENTS.md shrinks from 214 to 106 lines, consolidating duplicated guidance without demonstrated material requirement loss or structural regression. No actionable findings.

Source-only review of 343057881d3cb7d450ff1415d70c11ef0482e999. Two independent source reviews; no candidate code, tests, builds or generators executed.

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  • Source-only review; no commands or tests executed. Supplied exact-head checks report success or skipped.
  • Source-only review; no commands or tests executed. Supplied exact-head CI reports successful checks and five skipped jobs.

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jbeckwith-oai added this pull request to the merge queue Nov 6, 2026
Merged via the queue into main with commit 27c75c5 Nov 6, 2026
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jbeckwith-oai deleted the codex/simplify-agent-instructions branch November 6, 2026 16:24
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