Glossary / Agent reliability and evaluation
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