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## Describe your changes [#7009](https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/7009) wrote down what we expect from a contribution: an agreed ticket first, a change the author has run, one purpose per PR, small enough to review, a title tag CI already enforces. That works for contributors who read CONTRIBUTING.md. A growing share of what reaches the queue is drafted by a coding agent, and those tools never read it. The result is predictable and repetitive: a PR with no ticket behind it, an approach we would have talked the author out of in five minutes, a diff too large to review carefully against a daemon that runs as root, a description longer than the code it describes, and an author who cannot answer questions about their own change. That is not a tooling problem. It is what happens when a capable tool is pointed at a repository whose expectations nobody told it. AGENTS.md states those expectations in the format agents pick up automatically. The first entry in its stop-and-ask list is asking the contributor for the discussion or issue before drafting anything, which is where most of these PRs go wrong. It also carries the repository map, the Go conventions we apply in review, the local verification commands, the PR template and title-tag rules, and instructions to read the review bots rather than resolve their threads. CONTRIBUTING.md gains a short section saying plainly that we have no policy for or against agents, that this guide exists because of what we keep seeing rather than as a restriction on tools, and that whatever produced a diff its author owns it. It also records that we weigh whether a contribution is worth maintaining, and that what gets merged has to match our security and design expectations. CLAUDE.md is a one-line pointer rather than a symlink, deliberately. A symlink is tidier, but a Windows checkout without symlink support materialises it as a plain file containing the target path, and an agent then reads one word as its entire instruction set with no error to show for it. Given how much Windows work this repository sees, a pointer file that survives every checkout is worth the extra file. Nothing here is enforced by CI, and no workflow changes. It is guidance, aimed at PRs arriving in a reviewable state more often.
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See AGENTS.md for the agent guidelines in this repository.