Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too

Unix gives coding agents the tools. AGENTS.md explains where to edit, how to check, and what to preserve. Lessons from my dotfiles and human review.

In 2009, during a university course, I was struggling to configure an Apache 2 web server. Our teacher, an experienced sysadmin from Peugeot, came to my desk and solved the problem in a few minutes, using Linux tools and Vim.

He told me I should start using the command line . It is vital to become productive as a programmer.

I went home, installed a Linux distribution, and worked through several sessions of Linux tutorials and vimtutor . It was one of the best investments of my career. Also a bit of a curse: there was always another tool to try, another setting to refine.