From the course: OpenAI Codex 101: From Idea to Deployed App
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Create your first AGENTS.md file - OpenAI Codex Tutorial
From the course: OpenAI Codex 101: From Idea to Deployed App
Create your first AGENTS.md file
When you hire someone new, you don't explain your coding standards every time you assign a task. You give them a doc that covers the basics and they reference it going forward. Agents.md works the same way. It's a file you put in your project's root that tells Codex how you want things done. Your tech stack, your file structure, your conventions. Codex reads it at the start of every task, so you don't have to repeat yourself. Let's create one for the LinkedIn Bio app. In your GitHub repo, create a new file in the root directory and name it agents.md. This is standard markdown, nothing special about the format. Start with a section called Project Overview. Write one or two sentences describing what the app does. a personal link in bio page built with Python and Flask where users can add URLs and the app displays them as styled link cards. You can preview the file by clicking on preview. Here we see the preview. Next, add a tech stack section. List Python, Flask, and HTML. We'll also…
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