Ainsofs Blog: Technology insights from the Pacific Islands

A couple of months ago I read about agentic workflows for software development—the idea of giving AI agents enough context and rules to handle entire chunks of your SDLC, not just autocomplete. It sat in my "try this later" pile until last week, when I finally had the time to set it up properly. The setup: one file to rule them all The core of the approach is deceptively simple: a standardized agent context file. I used to roll my own version of this—a CONTEXT.md I'd hand-write per project—but I've since switched to the emerging AGENTS.md standard, which is cross-platform and increasingly recognized across different agent tools. Mine includes a project brief (what the codebase does, key architecture decisions, conventions) plus operating rules—how branches should be named, commit message formats, PR structure, that kind of thing. Basically everything I'd tell a new contractor on day one, written down once so the agent doesn't have to guess or get it wrong. V...