[Docs] Add AGENTS.md with Sistent design guidance

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Summary

Adds a root-level AGENTS.md to provide operational setup/runbook guidance and a version-accurate reference to Sistent's UI design contract for human contributors and AI coding agents.

Details

• Runbook: Documents setup, dev server (make site-dev / npm start), build (make build / npm run build), and clean (npm run clean / make clean) commands based on the existing package.json and Makefile.
• Repository Structure: Documents key functional directories (src/pages, src/sitecomponents, src/badgesInfo.json, static/).
• UI & Sistent Guidance:
  • Directs contributors/agents to reuse UI primitives from @sistent/sistent.
  • Points agents to node_modules/@sistent/sistent/DESIGN.md (or the Sistent release matching the version resolved in package-lock.json), preventing drift against master.
  • Uses Sistent as the source of truth for Sistent-based UI guidance without duplicating DESIGN.md.
• Contribution Standards: Documents DCO sign-off and build verification.

This PR fixes #118

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added repository contribution and development guidelines.
  • Documented the technology stack, project structure, development commands, and build verification steps.
  • Added guidance for UI component reuse, design references, and contribution requirements.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds AGENTS.md with repository setup and development commands, directory descriptions, Sistent guidance, and contribution requirements.

Changes

Repository Guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository documentation and contribution workflow AGENTS.md	Documents the project stack, development commands, repository structure, Sistent usage, DCO sign-off, the master pull-request target, and build verification.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: maanvi212006

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b3ab9

The guide points UI contributors to design guidance newer than the Sistent release this repository uses. That may lead to mismatched design conventions, so the version difference should be accepted or addressed before merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b3ab9

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: AGENTS.md

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — AGENTS.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in AGENTS.md: Added contributor and AI-agent documentation covering the repository, setup/development/build/clean commands, key directories, Sistent guidance and version compatibility, DCO sign-off, the master pull-request target, and build verification.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	AGENTS.md adds the root runbook and tells contributors to reuse Sistent components and tokens [#118]. However, its design-contract link points to sistent/blob/master/DESIGN.md. Issue #118 requires…	Replace the master link with the @sistent/sistent@0.15.12 design-contract reference required by #118, using the installed package path or matching release tag. Ensure the referenced resource exists for that version.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: adding AGENTS.md with Sistent design guidance.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The whole-PR diff adds only the root AGENTS.md. Its runbook, repository overview, contribution guidance, and Sistent guidance all support issue #118. No unrelated changes are present.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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Explanation

AGENTS.md adds the root runbook and tells contributors to reuse Sistent components and tokens [#118]. However, its design-contract link points to sistent/blob/master/DESIGN.md. Issue #118 requires a version-matched reference for @sistent/sistent@0.15.12, not master. The instruction to verify APIs against the installed package does not replace that design-contract reference.

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Two things:

1. The Sistent pointer won't resolve here yet. We're on ^0.15.x, but DESIGN.md only arrived in v0.21.2, and per sistent#1838 it isn't shipped in the npm package either. Can we upgrade Sistent in this repo so the pointer works?

2. The structure section mentions "engine specifications" in package.json, but there's no engines field. Could you remove that or add the Node version?

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Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Line 43: Update the Design Guidance Reference in AGENTS.md to link to the
Sistent DESIGN.md at the v0.15.12 release instead of the mutable master branch.
Preserve the existing packaged-document fallback and guidance against
maintaining a separate DESIGN.md.

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[PARTH-TUSSLE]

Two things:

1. The Sistent pointer won't resolve here yet. We're on ^0.15.x, but DESIGN.md only arrived in v0.21.2, and per sistent#1838 it isn't shipped in the npm package either. Can we upgrade Sistent in this repo so the pointer works?
2. The structure section mentions "engine specifications" in package.json, but there's no engines field. Could you remove that or add the Node version?

Thanks for the review @Maanvi212006!

1. Sistent pointer / upgrade: Upgrading Sistent in this repo hits peer dependency conflicts with @mui/system and @mui/icons-material against our Gatsby setup, so it's best handled in a separate chore PR. In the meantime, I've updated the pointer in AGENTS.md to link directly to the upstream contract on GitHub (https://github.com/layer5io/sistent/blob/master/DESIGN.md).
2. Engine specifications: Removed the reference to "engine specifications" from AGENTS.md to accurately reflect package.json.

[Maanvi212006]

few small things:

• Sistent version: the repo pins ^0.15.12, but the linked DESIGN.md is from Sistent master (added in v0.21.2). Could we say that in the doc, so people check tokens against the installed version? Issue #118 also mentions referencing 0.15.12.

• node_modules/.../DESIGN.md fallback: the npm package seems to ship only dist/, so that path probably won't exist. Maybe drop it?

• badgesInfo.json: I don't see a criteria field. It has slug, label, title, description and an image path (location, or imageSource in projectBadges).

• "Page templates" in src/pages/: it looks like route files only.

[PARTH-TUSSLE]

few small things:

• Sistent version: the repo pins ^0.15.12, but the linked DESIGN.md is from Sistent master (added in v0.21.2). Could we say that in the doc, so people check tokens against the installed version? Issue [Docs] Add AGENTS.md with Sistent design guidance #118 also mentions referencing 0.15.12.
• node_modules/.../DESIGN.md fallback: the npm package seems to ship only dist/, so that path probably won't exist. Maybe drop it?
• badgesInfo.json: I don't see a criteria field. It has slug, label, title, description and an image path (location, or imageSource in projectBadges).
• "Page templates" in src/pages/: it looks like route files only.

Addressed all 4 items in b3ab9d6:

Added Sistent ^0.15.12 compatibility note to verify tokens against the installed version
Removed node_modules fallback reference
Corrected badgesInfo.json schema (removed criteria)
Clarified src/pages/ as Gatsby route files/pages

[Maanvi212006]

LGTM!