Rename CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md and symlink the old name

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What: renames CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, replaces CLAUDE.md with a symlink to it, and export-ignores both.

Usage:

$ ls -l AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md
-rw-r--r--  AGENTS.md
lrwxrwxrwx  CLAUDE.md -> AGENTS.md

Why this way:

AGENTS.md is the name every agent reads, CLAUDE.md is the name only one does. The document was never Claude-specific — it is the durable design record this repo keeps instead of a plan file — so the file takes the cross-agent name and the Claude-specific name becomes the alias.

A symlink rather than a copy or a stub pointing at the other file. A copy is two documents that drift, and this one is 650 lines of invariants that must not; a stub costs a second read and gives agents that only look for CLAUDE.md a file with no content in it. The symlink is one file on disk, and git stores it as a symlink (mode 120000), so the rename shows as a rename.

Both names are export-ignored. CLAUDE.md already was; AGENTS.md inherits that, because a consumer installing the package through Composer has no use for either.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Added comprehensive repository guidance covering architecture, configuration, lifecycle, testing, conventions, and contribution practices.
  • Consolidated development instructions into the updated repository documentation.

• Chores

  • Updated export settings so internal contributor guidance is excluded from distributed archives.
  • Removed outdated development guidance to keep repository instructions current and consistent.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This change adds a repository guidance document in AGENTS.md, removes the prior CLAUDE.md guidance document, and updates .gitattributes to exclude AGENTS.md from exported archives.

Changes

Documentation update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Agent guidance and export rule AGENTS.md, .gitattributes, CLAUDE.md	Adds AGENTS.md with repository-wide development guidance, removes CLAUDE.md, and excludes AGENTS.md from exported archives with an export-ignore rule.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fe28d

The PR introduces only a localized documentation lint issue: two code blocks lack language identifiers. This does not affect product behavior and is merge-ready after the normal lint fix.

Suggested reviewers: nikolaystrikhar

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary documentation-file rename and compatibility symlink change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch 36-agents-md

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Line 208: Update the fenced code blocks at the lifecycle example and PR
template example to include language identifiers, using text for the lifecycle
block and markdown or text for the PR template block, so they satisfy
markdownlint MD040.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 3932765 and fe28dfd.

📒 Files selected for processing (4)

• .gitattributes
• AGENTS.md
• CLAUDE.md
• CLAUDE.md

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