> build steps, tests, and conventions that might clutter a README or aren’t relevant to human contributors.

You didn't get the memo? Vibe coding, obviously. Joke aside, I remember there was an article here a few weeks ago maybe about writing docs for bots about which commenters here said it was no different that writing better docs.

Basically a link to a page that says "create a file called AGENTS.md and put magic in it" and then links to a repo for the actual website saying this.

Devs are just being trolled into documenting their code. But because it's AI they are hyping it