AGENTS.md on main is currently 51,792 chars. Most coding-agent tooling caps auto-loaded instruction files around 40k chars and silently truncates the remainder — so the tail of this file likely never reaches the agent for anyone working in this repo. Rules end up applied by position in the file rather than by importance.
Largest sections today:
| chars |
section |
| 6.0k |
### CDXC comments: why the code exists, and what the user decided |
| 6.0k |
### Repository Search Routing |
| 4.8k |
### Repository layout (restructured 2026-08-22) |
| 4.6k |
### Changing zmx: the wire generation and the wire-cycle pass |
| 2.9k |
### Ghostex Help must stay true to the product |
Suggestion: keep AGENTS.md as the short, always-loaded rulebook and move the deep-reference sections into docs/agents/*.md with a one-line pointer each. Extracting just the top three brings the file to ~35k. The zmx / CDXC / search-routing material reads as reference-on-demand rather than something every agent needs every turn.
AGENTS.mdonmainis currently 51,792 chars. Most coding-agent tooling caps auto-loaded instruction files around 40k chars and silently truncates the remainder — so the tail of this file likely never reaches the agent for anyone working in this repo. Rules end up applied by position in the file rather than by importance.Largest sections today:
### CDXC comments: why the code exists, and what the user decided### Repository Search Routing### Repository layout (restructured 2026-08-22)### Changing zmx: the wire generation and the wire-cycle pass### Ghostex Help must stay true to the productSuggestion: keep
AGENTS.mdas the short, always-loaded rulebook and move the deep-reference sections intodocs/agents/*.mdwith a one-line pointer each. Extracting just the top three brings the file to ~35k. The zmx / CDXC / search-routing material reads as reference-on-demand rather than something every agent needs every turn.