General principles and background

Agentic AI is a powerful tool for curating ontologies where content is managed in github repos, but setting up a repo is a technical task, and requires updates to keep up both with new agent features as well as project-specific tuning and guidance.

We provide a copier template for setting up a repo, but localizing it is challenging:

• https://github.com/ai4curation/github-ai-integrations

In general, a repo should have:

• GitHub actions that allow curators to trigger agents via GitHub issues. These actions should be configured with sufficient guardrails
• Top level agent instructions (AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md depending on what is used) as well as specific instructions
• A strong validation/guardrails strategy

Relevant files include: