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Full tier assignments, pairing conventions, and authoring checklist for .agents/ rules and skills. Use when creating or reviewing a rule or skill, deciding Tier 1 vs 2 vs 3, or auditing attachment cost.
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| name | agents-tier-system |
| description | Full tier assignments, pairing conventions, and authoring checklist for .agents/ rules and skills. Use when creating or reviewing a rule or skill, deciding Tier 1 vs 2 vs 3, or auditing attachment cost. |
.agents/ tier system — full referenceAlways-on priming: .agents/rules/agents-tier-system.md. Entry points: .agents/README.md, agents-first-convention, writing-agents-config.
| Tier | How to list |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Frontmatter audit in agents-tier-system rule — budget set there |
| Tier 2 | ls .agents/rules/*.md + globs: in frontmatter |
| Tier 3 | alwaysApply: false, no globs: — intent via description |
| Skills | ls .agents/skills — runtime discovery via descriptions |
Pairing examples in this repo: architecture-priming ↔ improve-codebase-architecture; docs-governance-priming ↔ docs-governance + docs-lifecycle-sweep; docs-voice-priming ↔ docs-voice; agents-tier-system rule + skill; authoring-discipline rule + PROSE; verify-after-each-step rule + skill.
Caution: avoid stacking broad globs without thin priming bodies.
agents-first-convention.NEVER/ALWAYS + file-scoped work → Tier 2 priming rule.disable-model-invocation: true + delegate to model skill.writing-agents-config § SKILL.md size tiers.for f in .agents/rules/*.md .agents/lessons.md; do
awk '/^---$/{c++; next} c==1 && /^alwaysApply: true$/{found=1; exit} END{exit !found}' "$f" && echo "$f"
done
Done when: tier choice justified; pairing checklist satisfied; Tier-1 audit command run when adding always-on rules.
writing-great-skillswriting-agents-configagents-first-convention.md.agents/rules/agents-tier-system.md