Reduce AGENTS.md to a bare minimum - #5215
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AGENTS.md duplicated the security threat model and the SECURITY.md triage rules in full, so the two copies could drift. Keep it to a one-paragraph project description plus a link to SECURITY.md, which already links to the threat model. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md rather than AGENTS.md by default; add it as a bare @AGENTS.md import so the two stay in sync without duplicating content, and list it in .ratignore alongside AGENTS.md and SECURITY.md since it carries no license header either. Docs only; no production code touched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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A minimalistic AGENTS.md seems aligned with what we are proposing for Avatica's threat model in apache/calcite-avatica#313 |
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Why
AGENTS.md restated the full security threat model — the SPI class-loading gate, the pushed-down-SQL rule, the "not a vulnerability" list, and the "downstream responsibilities" list — that already lives in SECURITY.md and the linked threat model. Keeping two copies means they can drift out of sync.
What
Cuts AGENTS.md down to a one-paragraph description of what Apache Calcite is, plus a link to SECURITY.md for anything security-related, instead of duplicating its content.
How to verify
Docs only; no production code touched. Read the new AGENTS.md and confirm it still points agents at SECURITY.md.