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AGENTS.md: give Codex project rules that apply where the work happens

I recently used Codex to fix a bug. It finished the work and the tests passed, but the diff was frustrating: it used npm in a project where everyone uses pnpm, added a dependency without asking, and wrote a commit message that ignored our repository conventions. I had to correct each issue, only to see the same mistakes on the next task. The problem was not intelligence; Codex had never been given…

I recently used Codex to fix a bug. It finished the work and the tests passed, but the diff was frustrating: it used npm in a project where everyone uses pnpm, added a dependency without asking, and wrote a commit message that ignored our repository conventions. I had to correct each issue, only to see the same mistakes on the next task. The problem was not intelligence; Codex had never been given…

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