AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, DESIGN.md: How AI Instructions Split into Three Layers
In April 2026, Google Labs released a spec called DESIGN.md. It's a design system specification readable by AI agents, packaged with a CLI validator: npx @google/design.md lint. With DESIGN.md in the picture, we now have three different file types for instructing AI agents. AGENTS.md has been spread
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