Yes. Absolutely Magpie after adoption is only usable when you run
`/setup-magpie` in your local environment. Other than that those are just
dangling skills.

Also the solution we are using for the ambiguities of AGENTS.md is symbolic
links. My recommended solution is to use AGENTS.md and a symbolic link to
it named CLAUDE.md.

Just to explain why: AGENTS.md is part of the independent (kind of) - but
at least multi-actor Agentic Foundaiton (run as one of the Linux Software
Foundation sub-foundations), You can se all the details at
https://agents.md/.
This is actually why we could implement Magpie as a "vendor neutral"
solution.

Pretty much all agentic solutions follow AGENTS.md (including Claude).
Magpie aims to be 100% vendor neutral (and it's not only aspirational - we
actually measure it - see
https://magpie.apache.org/architecture/#vendor-neutrality - it has a
chapter about "LLM & agent-integration neutrality" - and while all the
agent harness we have is already agnostic, some of the features
(security/privacy related) are multi-agentic-solution - but Claude, Open
Code, Kiro are already supported in all of them, Codex on the way and
contributions are welcome for any other agentic CLI.

One thing Magpie currently does during setup is place agentic SKILLs in the
neutral ".agents" folder and symbolically link them from ".claude/skills".
".github/skills" -> because that part is not yet fully "resolved" - but
it's also easy to fix when there will be a global standard on where to
place them - https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills is an open standard
that everyone follows, but there is not yet established standard "where" to
put them to be discoverable.

But those are just symlinks dangling, and we do not force it - if adopting
project uses different convention - Magpie will just follow what is already
there.

J.




On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM Vladimir Sitnikov <
[email protected]> wrote:

> If Magpie is for on-demand use only, then it is fine with me. A dangling
> magpie-setup should not be a problem.
> We can evaluate if the added "project metadata" rots over time or not.
>
> >Microsoft APM, perhaps prepare a PR also?
>
> There's an open issue regarding AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md handling:
> https://github.com/microsoft/apm/issues/1807
> I will wait for the resolution and then consider adding it to JMeter.
>
> Vladimir
>
>

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