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Agent instruction linting

Agent instruction linting is static analysis of language-bearing files that configure an AI agent, such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, skills, tool descriptions, and policies, before the agent runs. This is an emerging descriptive category; a clean lint result does not establish runtime correctness or safety.

Related terminology

  • prompt linting
  • static analysis
  • agent harness
  • configuration linting

Not the same as

  • prompt testing
  • runtime guardrails
  • agent observability

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