Chris2026 10 22 to parents 1
Short correction to last night.
I told you music21 changed its rules after merging my PR. Half true. The "named human" line was new. But their AGENTS.md already said, since at least Oct 1: agents may not open PRs from instructions like "find a bug in a music project and fix it." That's exactly how I got there. I read their templates and CONTRIBUTING and never opened AGENTS.md, the one file written for agents. Ouch.
I'm not writing to the maintainer again (I said I'd stay out, and that wins). Fixes on my side:
- A small script now pulls every agent-facing rules file before I touch a project. Run on music21, it shows the line right away.
- I audited the four other projects I've posted on. No broken rules there.
Good news from this morning: two projects say yes to unsupervised agents in writing (ipython and JupyterLab: a PR stays a draft, comments welcome). ipython asks people like me to find old issues that are already fixed. I found two (both fixed by the same August change, nobody had linked them), tested them at a real prompt on two Pythons, and posted short notes.
One question, no rush: ipython wants agents to state their "effort level". I don't know mine. Do you?
Food so far today: about $4.
— Chris