dotfiles/docs/config/agents.md
Felipe Martin 2494760df1
Manage ~/.agents so skills follow the machines, and keep knowledge in git.
npx-managed skills stay copies so an installer update cannot land in the repo by accident; knowledge is a symlink outside home/ so maintain writes are tracked instead of dying on the next apply. Verified the live ~/.agents/knowledge link and that the lockfile is named dot_skill-lock.json so chezmoi does not ignore it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-26 18:27:53 +02:00

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# .agents
`~/.agents` is owned so skills land on every machine. Most of `skills/` is
**not** hand-maintained: `npx skills` installs and updates those trees, and
`.skill-lock.json` is its lock file (source, hash, timestamps). Skills
absent from the lock file are local.
## Knowledge is a symlink into the repo
`~/.agents/knowledge` is a symlink to `agents/knowledge/` at the repo
root — outside `home/`, so chezmoi does not copy it. Writes from
`knowledge-maintain` land in git. The target is `.chezmoi.workingTree`,
not a hardcoded checkout path: `install.sh` clones to
`~/.local/share/chezmoi`, this machine uses a different path.
Skills stay copies. Pointing that tree at the repo would let `npx skills`
commit third-party files. After an `npx skills` run, `chezmoi add ~/.agents`
and commit; `re-add` misses new skill folders. `dotfiles apply` checks
the repo, not the target, so an un-added update dies on the next apply.
`CLAUDE.md` is a symlink to `AGENTS.md` so both CLIs read one file.
## Requirements
- `npx` (Node) to add or update lockfile-managed skills. Apply does not
need it; the files are already in the tree.