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This is steps 1 and 2 of #9199: the root file plus the two highest-traffic leaf files.

What is in the pull request

  • AGENTS.md (root): project overview, a repository map of every top-level folder, a routing table, the setup and command list, the repo-wide conventions, a link to the tool-assisted contribution policy, and a short "do not" list.
  • monai/transforms/AGENTS.md: the array.py / dictionary.py / functional.py / batch.py layout of each family, and the traps specific to the package — MetaTensor metadata must survive the call, randomness goes through self.R, the push_transform/pop_transform contract of InvertibleTransform, and the deferred resampling of LazyTransform.
  • tests/AGENTS.md: the file naming rules, how to run one module, and the traps — optional dependencies are handled with the SkipIfNoModule decorators or exclude_cases in tests/min_tests.py, test data is downloaded rather than committed, and the shared helpers are imported from tests.test_utils.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md: a pointer to AGENTS.md and the expectation to keep it current.

How the facts were checked

Every statement was verified against the code in this branch, not from memory:

  • optional_import lives in monai/utils/module.py, and the deprecation helpers in monai/utils/deprecate_utils.py.
  • The test helpers are imported from tests.test_utils (the tests.utils package holds the tests of monai.utils itself).
  • The minimal test run is QUICKTEST=true python -m tests.min_tests, as documented in tests/min_tests.py.
  • ResampleMode and trace_back_transform do not exist in this tree, so neither file mentions them; the lazy machinery is described through LazyTrait, LazyTransform and ApplyPending.
  • The monai.module.export decorator that CONTRIBUTING.md still mentions is not in the code any more, so the files point at the package __init__.py re-exports instead.

The commands listed in the root file are the ones ./runtests.sh -h prints; ./runtests.sh -h and the help output were run for this pull request, while the test commands need the full development environment (pip install -e .[testing]).

Note on authorship

This documentation was drafted with an AI assistant, under the tool-assisted contribution policy in CONTRIBUTING.md. The commit carries an Assisted-by: trailer and a DCO sign-off, and the content was reviewed against the code before submitting.

Addresses step 1 and step 2 of #9199.

Introduce the AGENTS.md convention described in Project-MONAI#9199: a root file that routes to the package
files, plus leaf files for monai/transforms and tests, and a pointer from CONTRIBUTING.md.

Every fact in the files was checked against the code, and the files link to CONTRIBUTING.md
instead of duplicating it.

Assisted-by: OpenCode <noreply@opencode.ai>
Signed-off-by: Ayan Zahid <220202667+AyanZahid-Code@users.noreply.github.com>
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Added repository-wide guidance for MONAI contributors and AI coding assistants. Added transform-specific and test-specific guidance. Updated CONTRIBUTING.md with requirements for maintaining AGENTS.md files.

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- Line 38: Update the docs entry in the repository map to describe all Sphinx
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CodeRabbit's review of the AGENTS.md pull request pointed out that the repository map
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includes the Markdown ones, and that the full test command is the one
CONTRIBUTING.md recommends before a pull request rather than the one CI runs.

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I checked the claims against the code: the tests.test_utils helpers, the min_tests unused/duplicate assertion, the functional.py/batch.py layout, the extra_info collate restriction, the DCO commit-msg hook and every CONTRIBUTING anchor all hold. One security suggestion: AGENTS.md files are loaded as instructions by contributors' coding assistants, so changes to them deserve the same review gate as code. The leaf files are covered by CODEOWNERS through /monai/ and /tests/, but /AGENTS.md and /CONTRIBUTING.md are not; adding /AGENTS.md (or **/AGENTS.md) to .github/CODEOWNERS would close that. Note #9212 overlaps with this PR.

Comment thread AGENTS.md

```bash
./runtests.sh --setup # install the pre-commit hooks (black, isort, ruff, DCO sign-off)
./runtests.sh --autofix # format the working tree (isort + black)

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--autofix also runs ruff check --fix --unsafe-fixes and the copyright-header fixer, not only isort and black. Worth saying, since an assistant will run it across the whole tree and should expect those edits.

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