Developer Proposes AIC Standard to Give Packages a Coding-Agent Interface

A developer working across multiple tightly related SDK and application repositories identified a recurring problem: each package was independently defining how coding agents should interact with it, leading to inconsistent conventions and maintenance overhead. Over time, the repeated manual instructions for updating agent context files quietly became an undocumented protocol with no clear ownership or canonical source. To address this, the developer has drafted a convention called AIC (Agent Index Convention), which separates responsibilities among three actors: the package provider, the host repository, and the coding agent. AIC aims to give packages a stable, agent-facing interface — covering documentation, rules, skills, safe commands, and generated files — analogous to the programmatic interfaces packages already expose. The proposal is still in draft form based on the developer's own environment, but is being shared to establish a shared convention before independent solutions further fragment the ecosystem.