AGENTS.md Was Built to Help Agents. I Use it to Catch Them.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/agentsmd-was-built-to-help-agents-i-use-it-to-catch-them. How I use AGENTS.md and a GitHub Action to catch low-effort AI-generated PRs before wasting maintainer review time. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #ai, #opensource, #ai-agents, #code-review, #react-native, #open-source-maintatiner, #software-development, #agentic-ai, and more. This story was written by: @vladlensk1y. Learn more about this writer by checking @vladlensk1y's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AGENTS.md was built to guide coding agents, but I use it as a lightweight filter for low-effort AI-generated PRs. If an agent follows the repo instructions, it self-discloses in the PR template, gets labeled, and the contributor has to prove they actually ran the code.