Most advice about AI-ready repositories reduces to one move: write a better AGENTS.md. Add context. Explain the architecture. The file grows. Results do not improve.

The February 2026 ETH Zurich evaluation of context files explains why, and the explanation is not the one usually quoted.

Start somewhere else. Run this in your repository root:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vidanov/ai-ready-repo/main/scripts/ai_readiness_audit.py

python ai_readiness_audit.py