Comment by GBintz
5 days ago
we've been running AGENTS.md in production on helios (https://github.com/BintzGavin/helios) for a while now.
each role owns specific files. no overlap means zero merge conflicts across 1800+ autonomous PRs. planning happens in `.sys/plans/{role}/` as written contracts before execution starts. time is the mutex.
AGENTS.md defines the vision. agents read the gap between vision and reality, then pull toward it. no manager, no orchestration.
we wrote about it here: https://agnt.one/blog/black-hole-architecture
agents ship features autonomously. 90% of PRs are zero human in the loop. the one pain point is refactors. cross-cutting changes don't map cleanly to single-role ownership
AGENTS.md works when it encodes constraints that eliminate coordination. if it's just a roadmap, it won't help much.
Might be some interesting nuggets in your article but my eyes rolled so hard at this part I had to stop reading:
"The system does not assign tasks.
It defines gravity."
Helios looks cool though!