Coding Tools

Use AGENTS.md to guide coding agents and IDEs across your CrewAI projects.

Why AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is a lightweight, repo-local instruction file that gives coding agents consistent, project-specific guidance. Keep it in the project root and treat it as the source of truth for how you want assistants to work: conventions, commands, architecture notes, and guardrails.

Create a Project with the CLI

Use the CrewAI CLI to scaffold a project. AGENTS.md is added at the root, together with a CLAUDE.md and a GEMINI.md that import it, so Claude Code and Gemini CLI read the same guidance as every other assistant.

# Crew
crewai create crew my_crew

# Flow
crewai create flow my_flow

# Tool repository
crewai create tool my_tool

crewai tool create is deprecated and still works with a warning. Use crewai create tool instead.

Tool Setup: Point Assistants to AGENTS.md

Codex

Codex can be guided by AGENTS.md files placed in your repository. Use them to supply persistent project context such as conventions, commands, and workflow expectations.

Claude Code

Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md and ignores AGENTS.md. Scaffolded projects ship a CLAUDE.md whose only instruction is the import line @AGENTS.md, so the shared guidance is loaded without duplicating it. Add Claude-specific notes under that line and keep shared conventions in AGENTS.md.

For a project created before CLAUDE.md was scaffolded, add the import yourself:

printf '@AGENTS.md\n' > CLAUDE.md

Do not rename AGENTS.md to CLAUDE.md: Codex and Cursor read AGENTS.md, and the rename hides it from them.

Gemini CLI and Google Antigravity

Gemini CLI and Antigravity load a project context file (default: GEMINI.md) from the repo root and parent directories. Scaffolded projects ship a GEMINI.md whose only instruction is the import line @./AGENTS.md, so the shared guidance is loaded without duplicating it. Add Gemini-specific notes under that line and keep shared conventions in AGENTS.md.

For a project created before GEMINI.md was scaffolded, add the import yourself:

printf '@./AGENTS.md\n' > GEMINI.md

Alternatively, set context.fileName in your Gemini CLI settings to include AGENTS.md and Gemini reads it directly. Do not rename AGENTS.md to GEMINI.md: Codex and Cursor read AGENTS.md, and the rename hides it from them.

Cursor

Cursor supports AGENTS.md as a project instruction file. Place it at the project root to provide guidance for Cursor’s coding assistant.

Windsurf

Claude Code provides an official integration with Windsurf. If you use Claude Code inside Windsurf, follow the Claude Code guidance above and import AGENTS.md from CLAUDE.md.

If you are using Windsurf’s native assistant, configure its project rules or instructions feature (if available) to read from AGENTS.md or paste the contents directly.