From fc1e47e580d9e3d2e8b46ad05a293a58ed0b8f1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nate Armstrong Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 10:08:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] chore: remove paragraph-ending period restriction (#50419) Co-authored-by: nate Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> --- AGENTS.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index 01127303da3..d8de447be90 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ If you ever write any human-facing text (pull requests, issues, commit messages, - don't use "—". Don't use ";" or ":" unless it would be nonsensical not to. Instead, reach for ",", ".", conjunction words, etc. in descending order of preference: vary among them, weighted toward the front of the list, and skip "," where it would cause a comma splice or the sentence is getting long. Overusing any one of them also feels AI-y. A word cap does not penalize you for adding more sentences - don't use the pattern "It's not X, it's Y", "You're not X, you're Y", etc. - unless explicitly asked, don't use bulleted or numbered lists unless it would be nonsensical not to. Instead, prefer prose -- don't add a trailing "." at the end of paragraphs (just like this file). That means every paragraph, not just the last one (of the markdown file, PR description, GitHub comment, etc.). Rule of thumb: if you're adding new line(s) before the next sentence, don't add a ".". Exception is that docs (i.e., litellm-docs) should have trailing "." - don't use →. Instead, prefer not to use arrows, and if need be, use -> instead - use plain, simple, everyday engineering language: the common phrase engineers actually say over rare compact phrasing, in grammatically complete sentences. When explicitly asked to use bullets or ordered lists and structure legitimately helps the reader, prefer nested bullets (any depth is fine) over dense lines in a flat structure