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+# AGENTS.md
+
+## Cursor Cloud specific instructions
+
+### Overview
+
+This repository is the **NVIDIA Triton Inference Server** — a C++ inference serving
+platform with Python frontends. The main developable components are:
+
+| Component | Path | Language | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Core server | `src/` | C++ (CMake) | Requires NVIDIA Docker container + GPU to build/run |
+| OpenAI-compatible frontend | `python/openai/` | Python (FastAPI) | Developable for Python-only changes; runtime requires `tritonserver` |
+| Build system | `build.py`, `compose.py` | Python | Docker-based build orchestration |
+| QA tests | `qa/L0_*` | Shell/Python | Designed to run inside NVIDIA containers |
+
+### Linting
+
+Run linting through pre-commit (the authoritative lint check enforced in CI):
+
+```bash
+pre-commit run --files <files>        # check specific files
+pre-commit run --all-files            # check everything
+```
+
+Pre-commit hooks include: isort, black (v23.1.0), flake8, clang-format (v16), codespell,
+and a custom license-header adder (`tools/add_copyright.py`). Configuration is in
+`.pre-commit-config.yaml` and `pyproject.toml`.
+
+### Tests
+
+The OpenAI frontend tests (`python/openai/tests/`) require:
+- The `tritonserver` Python package (only available inside NVIDIA NGC containers)
+- A GPU-backed ML framework (`vllm` or `tensorrt_llm`)
+- A running Triton Inference Server with loaded models
+
+These tests **cannot run** in a standard Cloud Agent VM without GPU/NVIDIA infrastructure.
+To run them, use an NVIDIA Docker container as described in `python/openai/README.md`.
+
+### Key gotchas
+
+- The `tritonserver` Python package cannot be pip-installed normally; it requires
+  the Triton C library from NVIDIA NGC containers.
+- `build.py` and `compose.py` both orchestrate Docker-based builds; they will fail
+  without Docker and NVIDIA container runtime.
+- The pre-commit `add-license` hook modifies files by adding/updating copyright headers —
+  if it reports "Failed", run `git add` on the modified files and commit again.
+- The globally-installed `black` version may differ from the pre-commit pinned version
+  (23.1.0). Always use `pre-commit run` for authoritative formatting checks.
+- `compose.py` emits `SyntaxWarning` about invalid escape sequences — this is a
+  known issue in the existing code and does not affect functionality.