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Summary

  • Renames the "Spec-Driven Development" section in AGENTS.md to "Context Engineering" with a "Design Docs" subsection
  • Reframes the motivation: AI needs more context to produce correct code, and code alone doesn't carry all the context
  • Adds clearer guidelines: Read first, Keep in sync, Format, Reference in code, Maintain like a garden

Why the rename?

"Spec-Driven Development" implies rigid specs driving the process. We're not doing that — we're human-driven, where design docs provide context (trade-offs, intentions, decisions) for both humans and AI. "Context Engineering" better describes the practice.

Test plan

  • AGENTS.md reads coherently
  • CLAUDE.md (symlink) reflects the change automatically
  • Internal reference on line 48 updated to point to "Context Engineering"

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Pull request overview

Renames the guidance section in AGENTS.md from “Spec-Driven Development” to “Context Engineering” to better describe the repo’s practice of using design docs as contextual intent (trade-offs/decisions) for both humans and AI.

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  • Renamed the top-level section to Context Engineering and added a Design Docs subsection.
  • Rewrote the guidance bullets to emphasize reading docs first, keeping them in sync, referencing them in code, and maintaining them over time.
  • Updated the internal cross-reference in the repository structure list to point to the new section name.

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## Summary

- Renames the "Spec-Driven Development" section in AGENTS.md to "Context Engineering" with a "Design Docs" subsection
- Reframes the motivation: AI needs more context to produce correct code, and code alone doesn't carry all the context
- Adds clearer guidelines: **Read first**, **Keep in sync**, **Format**, **Reference in code**, **Maintain like a garden**

## Why the rename?

"Spec-Driven Development" implies rigid specs driving the process. We're not doing that — we're human-driven, where design docs provide context (trade-offs, intentions, decisions) for both humans and AI. "Context Engineering" better describes the practice.

## Test plan

- [x] AGENTS.md reads coherently
- [x] CLAUDE.md (symlink) reflects the change automatically
- [x] Internal reference on line 48 updated to point to "Context Engineering"

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@hyf0 hyf0 changed the title refactor(agents): rename Spec-Driven Development to Context Engineering chore(agents): rename Spec-Driven Development to Context Engineering Apr 8, 2026
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## [1.0.0-rc.15] - 2026-04-09

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- prevent stack overflow in `generate_transitive_esm_init` on circular dependencies (#9041) by @shulaoda

### 🚜 Refactor

- agents: rename Spec-Driven Development to Context Engineering (#9036) by @hyf0

Co-authored-by: shulaoda <165626830+shulaoda@users.noreply.github.com>
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