chore: remove the copilot-collections and simplify the agent instructions#259
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This looks good to me, thanks.
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This PR removes the copilot-collections automation, and the files pulled from it. We've decided to use a more minimal approach, at least for now.
As a replacement, an AGENTS.md file is added, also with a minimal approach.
I think we may want to have some documentation instructions included in the future, but the copilot-collections set seems too large. I'd like to leave these out for now, and discuss this with @dwilding later.
As an example of the impact, I asked Copilot CLI to implement tonyandrewmeyer#4 (add space commands). I am not proposing we merge either of the resulting PRs (we should wait for someone to need them), it's just my current test case for this repo. I used Opal 4.6 (max effort) as the model in both cases.
A note on the one from this branch: Copilot figured out the output format, but obeyed the rule about the dataclasses coming from Go code rather than being self-written, and 'decided' to use a plain dict instead. I think this is reasonable, and I would then replace it myself if I was working on the ticket. I think it would be interesting to have a tool that agents could use (based on @benhoyt 's original one) to generate dataclasses when needed. (In a later PR). In the main version, Copilot tried to find the definition in the Juju code (good, but risky in my opinion).