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    "displayName": "Instruction File Standard",
    "description": "Instruction File Standard as a cross-cutting topic — the convergence\nand divergence of agent instruction file formats across coding agents.\nCovers CLAUDE.md (Claude Code, Pi), AGENTS.md (Codex, Amp, OpenCode),\n.cursorrules and .cursor/rules/*.mdc (Cursor), .clinerules (Cline),\n.windsurfrules (Windsurf), .roorules (Roo Code), and .continuerules\n(Continue). The proliferation of agent-specific instruction files\ncreates a maintenance burden for projects that support multiple agents.\nCross-agent compatibility is emerging: Cursor added AGENTS.md support,\nPi adopted CLAUDE.md. The open question is whether the ecosystem will\nconverge on a single standard or maintain per-agent formats with\ntranslation layers.\n"
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