# AGENTS.md

> Open convention for giving coding agents build, test, and style instructions

- Category: [AI Protocols](https://ailandscape.org/category/ai-protocols) › Agent Communication Protocols
- Homepage: https://agents.md
- Repository: https://github.com/agentsmd/agents.md
- Tags: protocol, coding, oss
- Added to the landscape: 2026-08-07

## Similar tools in Agent Communication Protocols

- [A2A](https://ailandscape.org/tool/a2a): Agent-to-Agent protocol by Google for multi-agent interop
- [ACP](https://ailandscape.org/tool/acp): Agent Communication Protocol by IBM/BeeAI
- [ANP](https://ailandscape.org/tool/anp): Agent Network Protocol for decentralized agent communication
- [AP2](https://ailandscape.org/tool/ap2): Google Cloud's open-source Agent Payments Protocol for AI agent transactions

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Part of [AI Landscape](https://ailandscape.org), an open map of the AI ecosystem. Web page: https://ailandscape.org/tool/agents-md · Index for AI assistants: https://ailandscape.org/llms.txt