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ELI-5

Different AI coding tools look for their instructions in different files. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md; most other agents (Codex, Cursor, Amp) read AGENTS.md. Today this repo only has CLAUDE.md, so every non-Claude agent gets zero guidance. This PR makes AGENTS.md the single source of truth (the same content, plus small accuracy fixes) and leaves a tiny CLAUDE.md that just imports it, so every tool reads the same instructions.

What changed

• Renamed CLAUDE.md → AGENTS.md (via git mv). The content is carried over except for the H1 heading and four review fixes, listed below.

• Added a new CLAUDE.md containing exactly the canonical Claude Code shim:

  <!-- Agent instructions live in AGENTS.md (the cross-agent standard). This is a Claude Code shim: Claude reads only CLAUDE.md, so the import below pulls AGENTS.md in. Don't add content here — edit AGENTS.md. -->
  @AGENTS.md

• Generalized the one Claude-specific line: the H1 heading # CLAUDE.md → # AGENTS.md, so the file's title matches its new name. This is the org standard's "generalize Claude-specific phrasing" step (the body's opening line was already generic — "Guidance for AI agents…"). Flagging it as the single judgment call in this PR.

• Review fixes to AGENTS.md, from CodeRabbit: the stale version v0.10.1 is now the source version 0.10.2 (matching pyproject.toml and __init__.py); the __init__.py row now says "Key exports" and points to the full Public API Surface list; the Code quality block adds the CI gate's ruff format --check pyisolate tests; and a comment there notes that tox -e lint uses a broader . scope (example/, docs/, README.md) that is not clean today, which is why the commands listed match the CI gate instead.

Verification

• Confirmed no .cursorrules exists (nothing to remove).
• Confirmed the only CLAUDE.md reference anywhere in the repo is the new shim itself (grep -rn CLAUDE.md).
• Confirmed no nested CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files exist — this is a root-only change.
• Diffed the original CLAUDE.md against the new AGENTS.md: the only differences are the H1 line and the four review fixes listed above.
• Doc-only change: CI (ruff/mypy/pytest over pyisolate tests) is unaffected by markdown; pre-commit's whitespace/EOF hooks pass (single trailing newline, no trailing whitespace on either file).

Provenance

• Authored by: agent-work loop
• Verified:
  • grep -rn CLAUDE.md: only the shim references it.
  • Diffing the original CLAUDE.md against AGENTS.md shows only the H1 line and the four review fixes.
  • Manual EOF and trailing-whitespace check on both files: clean.
  • The version and export facts were checked against pyproject.toml and pyisolate/__init__.py, and the ruff scope against .github/workflows/ci.yml. ruff check/ruff format --check on pyisolate tests pass; on . they report 20 lint errors in example/ and 9 unformatted files in example/, docs/ and README.md, all present on main too.
  • No Python was touched. The red CI/Windows Tests jobs fail the same tests on main at the same base 8ff4733 (asyncio event-loop errors plus a cuda_wheels tag assertion), so they predate this PR.
• Deviations:
  • The H1 changed from # CLAUDE.md to # AGENTS.md, following the standard's "generalize Claude-specific phrasing" step.
  • The four CodeRabbit doc-accuracy fixes (version, "Key exports" label, ruff format check, tox-scope note) mean AGENTS.md is no longer byte-identical to the old CLAUDE.md body.

Residual

None. All acceptance criteria are met: CLAUDE.md holds exactly the canonical shim, AGENTS.md carries the prior content (H1 and the review fixes aside), no .cursorrules exists, and there are no nested instruction files to migrate.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds pyisolate maintenance guidance in AGENTS.md. It replaces the previous CLAUDE.md content with a two-line shim that references AGENTS.md.

Changes

Shared maintenance guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared guidance and Claude Code shim AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md	AGENTS.md documents project structure, development commands, public APIs, isolation rules, testing conventions, environment variables, and invariants. CLAUDE.md directs Claude Code to use AGENTS.md.

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The shared guidance is loaded by Claude Code, and no actionable merge-blocking risk is established.

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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 68-69: Update the Ruff commands in AGENTS.md to match the
repository-wide validation contract in tox.ini: use ruff check . and ruff format
--check . instead of scoped paths and format-in-place execution.
- Line 17: Update the __init__.py package export table entry to either rename
“Package exports” to “Key exports” or include the omitted exported symbols:
ExtensionManagerConfig, local_execution, singleton_scope, flush_tensor_keeper,
purge_orphan_sender_shm_files, and get_adapter.
- Line 7: Update the pyisolate version statement in AGENTS.md to match the
intended source or latest-release reference, using the declared version symbols
in pyproject.toml and pyisolate.__init__.py to verify it. If both versions are
relevant, label them separately and keep the values clearly distinct.

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