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AGENTS.md

Last updated 2026-08-21 · benchmark measured 2026-08-21 — deterministic & reproducible

An open file format for giving AI coding agents project-specific instructions.

Is AGENTS.md production-ready?

Legit.Show scores AGENTS.md 72 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on AGENTS.md (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 97/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 60/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 306 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

open-source project maintainers · AI coding agent users · development teams · monorepo projects · coding agent developers

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