/agentify-project

name: agentify-project
description: Make a project ready for AI agentic engineering by converging it toward a canonical agent-neutral structure — a lean AGENTS.md index with progressive disclosure, shared skills and gitignore hygiene. Re-runnable, and doubles as an audit.
disable-model-invocation: true
type: flow
license: MIT
metadata:
  version: "0.2"

Agentify project

Converge a project — greenfield or half-way-there — toward the canonical agent-neutral structure specified in [references/target-structure.md](references/target-structure.md) (read it before the audit), so a team of developers using different agents shares one lean, progressively disclosed setup. Re-running converges further and reports drift.

Invocation: `/agentify-project [audit] [path]`

• `audit` — run step 1 only, print the findings and what a full run would change, modify nothing;

the periodic drift check.

• `path` — target a subdirectory instead of the repo root (see Monorepos).

Principles

• **Ask, don't enforce**: prefer asking — all options shown, one recommended — over enforcing a

choice, except for obvious easy wins (e.g. clear progressive-disclosure moves). Questions answerable from the codebase go to the codebase.

• One approval gate per destructive/bulk change; show diffs or proposals before applying; nothing

happens behind the user's back. Never commit — suggest reviewing the diff and leave committing to the user.

• Generic: behavior is driven by [references/agent-matrix.md](references/agent-matrix.md) — read

it whenever agent detection or an agent's specifics are needed. One documented exception, the **Claude carve-out**: a team with no Claude users at all is rare, so Claude wiring (the CLAUDE.md pointer, the `.claude/skills/` links, the Claude gitignore entries) is applied unconditionally, never detection-gated.

1. Audit (read-only)

• Detect each target-structure area's state, and which agents are in use by their traces (matrix).
• Warn — never block — if the git working tree is dirty, so the user can commit first and keep

the restructure reviewable as an isolated diff.

• Detect nested entry files (monorepo packages).
• Diff duplicated entry files (agents without include syntax) against AGENTS.md; divergence

becomes a re-sync menu item — the one artifact class guaranteed to drift.

• Detect Claude-only assets (`.claude/commands/`, `.claude/agents/`, `.claude/rules/`): report,

leave. Flag `.claude/rules/` content as candidate governing-doc material (path-scoped rules are a Claude-specific disclosure mechanism); legacy commands may get a one-off note that they could become skills — the conversion itself is out of scope.

• Record entry-file line counts: menu annotations now, coarse before-figure for

`/context-checkup` later.

Done when every target-structure area has a detected state and every agent trace found is accounted for.

2. Menu

Multi-select over the applicable change areas only — entry-file indirection, AGENTS.md slimming into docs, skills relocation + symlinks, gitignore hygiene, planning dir, onboarding doc, README pointer — each annotated with audit findings (e.g. "CLAUDE.md, 180 lines, no AGENTS.md → indirection + slimming"). **"All" is the first and recommended option.** Report already-converged areas ✓ and omit them from the choices. Every area is independently skippable: a team may deliberately stay Claude-only (no multi-agent support) — then apply the selected areas within the Claude-only variant in target-structure.md.

3. Execute — live, step by step

Apply each accepted area immediately, behind its approval gate — no migration-plan artifact: the moves are mostly mechanical, and re-running converges. Suggested order: entry files → slimming/docs → skills → gitignore → extras.

**Entry files.** Invariant covering every starting state: the content of **all** existing entry files — any agent's, including a divergent CLAUDE.md + AGENTS.md pair — feeds the slimming mapping; AGENTS.md ends canonical; every detected entry file ends as a pointer (or duplicated content, per matrix), CLAUDE.md always included. Common case (CLAUDE.md exists, no AGENTS.md): rename it to AGENTS.md — git detects the rename — and recreate CLAUDE.md as `@AGENTS.md` plus any genuinely Claude-specific remainder. AGENTS.md-only and third-party-only repos: same invariant — create the missing pointer(s), seed AGENTS.md from whatever entry-file content exists. Greenfield (no entry file of any agent): minimal seed from cheap reconnaissance (README, package manifest / build files) — one-liner, **verified** build/test/run commands, planning-dir convention — plus the pointer; deep doc generation is out of scope, the structure grows later via `/self-improve` and `/memory-doctor`.

**Slimming (mapping-first).** Draft one full mapping: each block → stays / moves to existing doc X / new doc Y, applying the keep-vs-extract test (target-structure §1); where a block's relevance is verifiable from the codebase, check the code instead of asking. Present the mapping with obvious calls pre-decided; walk **only doubtful blocks** as individual questions, each with a recommendation, worded via `explain-in-simple-language` when available; one approval gate before any edit. Offer a compaction pass on blocks that stay; write extracted docs compact from birth — via `compact-docs-writer` when installed, else inline with its core principle (least text, zero information loss). Each extracted doc gets a plain-link index entry in AGENTS.md with its "read when…" hook.

**Skills.** Move real dirs, create relative symlinks (committed), per matrix; leave foreign/personal links untouched and report them.

**Gitignore.** Show the proposed block as a diff; apply on approval.

**Extras.** Planning dir + AGENTS.md convention line; onboarding doc; README pointer.

Done when every selected area is applied or explicitly skipped by the user.

4. Verify (mechanical)

Every AGENTS.md reference resolves; symli