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Clerk SDKs now tell AI coding agents which Clerk APIs are current, and point them to the Clerk plugin.

  • 15 SDK packages ship an AGENTS.md. It lists the current APIs for that version and recommends the Clerk plugin (npx plugins add clerk/skills).
  • When the app runs in development, Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, Expo, TanStack React Start, Express, Fastify, Hono, React Router, and Electron add a Clerk block to the project's root AGENTS.md. The block sends the agent to node_modules/@clerk/<sdk>/AGENTS.md and links the Markdown docs at https://clerk.com/docs.md.
  • If the project has no CLAUDE.md, the SDKs create one that imports AGENTS.md. If it has one without that import, they add @AGENTS.md to it.
  • The SDKs skip the write in production, tests, and CI. Setting CLERK_AGENTS_MD=false turns it off.
  • @clerk/react/vite and @clerk/vue/vite add Vite plugins that do the same for React and Vue apps.
  • npx @clerk/upgrade --agents-md writes the blocks on demand, and interactive upgrades offer to after the packages upgrade.
  • @clerk/shared/agentRules holds the writer and the plugin text. pnpm agents-md:sync copies that text into each package's AGENTS.md, and pnpm lint:agents-md fails CI when a copy drifts.

Hold: this ships with the Clerk plugin rollout (DOCS-12279). Merge it alongside DOCS-12283 after the go-ahead. The AGENTS.md text links to /docs/guides/ai/overview, which gets the plugin install steps in DOCS-12283.

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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
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  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
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The pull request adds shared utilities that generate and update Clerk sections in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md. SDK development integrations invoke these utilities in permitted environments. React, Vue, and Chrome extension packages expose Vite plugins. The upgrade CLI gains an --agents-md option and an interactive write option. SDK packages publish guidance files. Synchronization runs through lint and CI checks.

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 5655e

The change is mergeable with owner awareness: Vite development may leave guidance unwritten without notice, and the shipped install command may not match the documented command. Align the command with the plugin rollout before release.

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Review comments at @packages/expo/app.plugin.js:
- Around line 18-51: Replace the locally defined isAgentEnvironment and
isAutomatedEnvironment checks in the Expo plugin with imports from
@clerk/shared/utils, and remove the duplicated isTruthyEnvValue and
environment-variable lists. Preserve the existing callers, including
maybeWriteAgentRules, so values such as CLAUDECODE=False follow the shared
helper behavior.
- Around line 53-70: Update maybeWriteAgentRules to return immediately when
isProductionEnvironment() is true, alongside the existing didWriteAgentRules,
isAutomatedEnvironment(), and isAgentEnvironment() guards, so withClerkExpo
never writes agent rules during production evaluation.

Review comments at @packages/shared/src/__tests__/agentRules.spec.ts:
- Around line 89-105: Add a test in the agent rules suite for an orphan BEGIN
marker followed by user text, invoke writeClerkAgentRules twice with the same
configuration, and assert after each invocation that the user text remains in
AGENTS.md.

Review comments at @packages/shared/src/agentRules/index.ts:
- Around line 162-177: Update upsertMarkedBlock to detect unbalanced markers
before insertion: only search for the end marker when startIndex is valid, and
return the original content unchanged when either marker exists without a
matching pair. Preserve replacement for balanced markers and existing insertion
behavior when neither marker is present.
- Around line 253-260: Update FileSystemAdapter and writeClerkAgentRules to
support optional renameSync-based atomic writes: create a unique temporary file
in the target’s directory, write the complete agent-rule content there, then
rename it to the existing target file. Apply this to existing agent-rule files
while preserving dry-run and unchanged behavior, and avoid relying on the
module-local didWrite guard for cross-process coordination.

Review comments at @packages/shared/src/utils/runtimeEnvironment.ts:
- Around line 22-32: Remove CURSOR_TRACE_ID from agentEnvironmentVariables and
prevent it from contributing to isAgentEnvironment(). Preserve
CURSOR_EXTENSION_HOST_ROLE as an agent signal only when its value is exactly
'agent-exec', while leaving the other configured environment checks unchanged.

Review comments at @packages/upgrade/src/cli.js:
- Around line 293-295: Update the sdks.length === 0 branch in the --agents-md
flow to return a nonzero failure status after rendering the warning, so explicit
AGENTS.md generation with no discovered SDK packages is reported as
unsuccessful.
- Around line 249-254: Move the interactive prompt and writeAgentsMd call from
before performUpgrade to after performUpgrade and replacement operations
complete successfully. Keep the existing isInteractive and sdks checks, and only
write the rules after the upgrade has produced its final installed SDK state.

Review comments at @packages/upgrade/src/util/agent-rules.js:
- Around line 9-10: Update the SDK discovery flow using workspaceRoot and
packageDirs so it scans the workspace root package.json in addition to all
workspace package directories, ensuring a root-level @clerk/nextjs declaration
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Log a warning with the failure reason instead of swallowing it, and skip
loading the agent-rules module in production Next.js builds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…kipped

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
royanger and others added 8 commits October 29, 2026 14:15
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…workspace root

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md directly, so the writer only updates AGENTS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e user removes it

The writer records its first write in node_modules/.cache/clerk and skips later
runs when the section is gone. clerk-upgrade --agents-md still forces a write.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cted

Restores isAgentEnvironment() and extends it to match @vercel/detect-agent's env
signals (Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Augment, Antigravity, Replit, Copilot CLI).
A dev run without an agent records nothing, so the first later run under an
agent still writes AGENTS.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…age.json

"clerk": { "agentsMd": false } in the app's package.json stops all writes,
including clerk-upgrade --agents-md, and removes existing Clerk sections from
AGENTS.md. The dev log now names this team-wide opt-out first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
royanger and others added 3 commits October 29, 2026 15:14
…ection per app

In a workspace, every app writes to the root AGENTS.md under its own marker
(clerk-agent-rules:<sdk>:<app dir>), and each section points at the SDK copy
that app installed. "clerk": { "agentsMd": false } in an app's package.json
turns off and removes only that app's section; in the root package.json it
removes them all. Removed sections are remembered one by one, and
clerk-upgrade --agents-md writes a section for each workspace app.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Turborepo's default strict env mode strips agent env vars from dev tasks, so
env-only detection never fired under turbo dev. The writer now also writes when
the repo (up to its .git folder) has agent files such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md,
.claude/, or .cursor/. The check moves from isClerkAgentRulesWriteAllowed() into
writeClerkAgentRules(), so package.json opt-outs also clean up on any dev run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…h other's AGENTS.md intro

The intro section now carries a clerk-agent-rules-version stamp, and the writer
never replaces an intro with a higher version. A test pins the intro text to its
version, so changing the text without bumping the version fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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