I then added a few more personal preferences and suggested tools from my previous failures working with agents in Python: use uv and .venv instead of the base Python installation, use polars instead of pandas for data manipulation, only store secrets/API keys/passwords in .env while ensuring .env is in .gitignore, etc. Most of these constraints don’t tell the agent what to do, but how to do it. In general, adding a rule to my AGENTS.md whenever I encounter a fundamental behavior I don’t like has been very effective. For example, agents love using unnecessary emoji which I hate, so I added a rule:
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A spokesman for the Covid inquiry said: "The inquiry is unlike any previous public inquiry. It was given a very broad scope because it is investigating multiple aspects of a pandemic that affected everyone in society."
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