Agents: Add a code review guide and slim AGENTS.md down to pointers

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What I did

Agents reviewing Storybook PRs now have a shared guide, linked from AGENTS.md. It focuses on checks that are easy to miss: public package entries and declarations, framework ownership in shared code, input boundaries, concurrent resources, automigration retries, first-attempt UI behavior, and type and performance verification. For tool-dependent claims, reviewers run focused probes when execution is available and explain the concrete cost behind a maintainability finding. The guide points to the testing guidance for tests in a diff.

The testing guide now asks for readable inputs and expected results. For a mapper with stable output, an inline snapshot can show the full transformation beside its input, as the automigration fix tests do.

This PR also moves the detailed contributor instructions out of AGENTS.md and into linked guides. AGENTS.md drops from 221 lines to 46 and keeps the always-on rules and links for each kind of work.

Guidance	Location
Commands, toolchain, and development workflow	.agents/guidelines/development.md
Code authoring and contributor preferences	.agents/guidelines/code-authoring.md
Testing	.agents/guidelines/testing.md
PR requirements	.agents/guidelines/pull-requests.md
Code review	.agents/guidelines/code-review.md

Where the review rules come from

The guide combines a Storybook review checklist with thermo-nuclear code quality review and selected pstack principles. The wording is adapted to this repository. This table covers the rules that remain in the guide after removing general review advice.

Guide section	Rule	Source
Scope and evidence	Probe compiler, bundler, browser, or dependency claims when execution is available; give a rerunnable command	Storybook review baseline; prove-it-works
Exported types and dependencies	Follow exports, declarations, consumer expressions, version ranges, and migration guidance; in-repo callers alone do not prove external compatibility	Storybook review baseline
Exported types and dependencies	Migrate all callers before deleting an internal API; use the deprecation process for public APIs	migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis, limited to internal APIs
Shared core and adapters	Check framework ownership, source precedence, unaffected consumers, and the semantics of helpers proposed for reuse	Storybook review baseline; thermo #6 for layer ownership
Metadata and composed APIs	Follow aliases, inherited members, input/output-only exposure, and serialization through consumers	Storybook review baseline
Boundaries	Parse config, CLI, environment, channel, and story input at entry; trust parsed types internally and avoid leaking transport shapes	boundary-discipline
Workers and concurrency	Drain started work before removing resources; Promise.all does not cancel other operations	Storybook review baseline
Workers and concurrency	Separate competing write targets before adding a lock; check related updates that can be left half-applied	separate-before-serializing-shared-state; thermo #7
CLI, automigrations, init	Check repeated and interrupted runs; follow the automigration step ordering rule	make-operations-idempotent; automigration README
React UI and accessibility	Check keyboard, pointer, accessible names, and fresh-page or first-attempt behavior	Storybook review baseline; testing guide
Structure and maintainability	Report a structural finding only with a concrete cost	thermo-nuclear review, adapted to avoid automatic findings
Structure and maintainability	Inspect growing branch chains and booleans that encode the same state	model-the-domain
Structure and maintainability	Inspect special cases in busy flows, threaded flags, and repeated decisions	thermo #2; laziness-protocol
Structure and maintainability	Inspect pass-through layers and hidden mutable state	minimize-reader-load; thermo #4
Structure and maintainability	Inspect casts that hide incompatible shapes and types that duplicate another owner	type-system-discipline; thermo #5
Verification: bug fixes	A focused test fails on base for the reported reason and passes on head	Storybook review baseline
Verification: performance	State run count, spread, and input size; rule out skipped work, caching, and noise	explain-the-number
Verification: types and flakes	Use consumer type tests and inspect emitted declarations; check the first failing attempt without retries	Storybook review baseline
Verification: tests in the diff	Keep inputs and expected results readable; use inline snapshots when they clarify stable mapper output	testing guide; automigration fix test
Feedback	Give the trigger, consequence, evidence, and fix direction on the smallest useful changed line range	Storybook review baseline

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests

Manual testing

Caution

This section is mandatory for all contributions. If you believe no manual test is necessary, please state so explicitly. Thanks!

This PR changes only agent guidance, so there is no runtime behavior to test.

1. Open AGENTS.md, go to the new "Code Review" section, and check that it links to .agents/guidelines/code-review.md.
2. Open each link in the AGENTS.md "Read Before You Start" table and check that it resolves.
3. Pick a rule from the old AGENTS.md on next and find it in the appropriate linked guide.
4. Read the review guide and check that its maintainability examples require a concrete cost before becoming findings. Check that the testing guide recommends readable expected results and inline snapshots for suitable mapper tests.
5. Ask an agent in this repo to review a recent merged PR and check that it reads the guide first and reports findings in the format from "Feedback".

Documentation

• Add or update documentation reflecting your changes
• If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
  MIGRATION.MD

Checklist for Maintainers

• When this PR is ready for testing, make sure to add ci:normal, ci:merged or ci:daily GH label to it to run a specific set of sandboxes. The particular set of sandboxes can be found in code/lib/cli-storybook/src/sandbox-templates.ts

• Declare whether manual QA will be needed for this PR during the next release, through qa:needed or qa:skip

• Make sure this PR contains one of the labels below:

  Available labels

  • bug: Internal changes that fixes incorrect behavior.
  • maintenance: User-facing maintenance tasks.
  • dependencies: Upgrading (sometimes downgrading) dependencies.
  • build: Internal-facing build tooling & test updates. Will not show up in release changelog.
  • cleanup: Minor cleanup style change. Will not show up in release changelog.
  • documentation: Documentation only changes. Will not show up in release changelog.
  • feature request: Introducing a new feature.
  • BREAKING CHANGE: Changes that break compatibility in some way with current major version.
  • other: Changes that don't fit in the above categories.

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The pull request shortens AGENTS.md and adds focused guidance for development, code authoring, code review, testing, and pull requests. It also updates existing documents to clarify their scope and ownership.

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Contributor guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Canonical instructions and guidance pointers AGENTS.md, .agents/guidelines/architecture.md, .agents/guidelines/nx-and-yarn-task.md, .agents/guidelines/sandboxes.md	AGENTS.md now contains concise repository-wide rules and links to topic guidance. The other documents update descriptions of their scope or ownership.
Development workflows .agents/guidelines/development.md	Adds toolchain details, common commands, validation workflows, formatting requirements, and troubleshooting guidance.
Code authoring and review practices .agents/guidelines/code-authoring.md, .agents/guidelines/code-review.md	Adds code-authoring principles and review guidance for evidence, APIs, boundaries, concurrency, accessibility, maintainability, and verification.
Testing and pull-request guidance .agents/guidelines/testing.md, .agents/guidelines/pull-requests.md	Updates test selection and suite commands, including Storybook play-story guidance. Adds pull-request requirements for target branch, checks, title and body, labels, approval, and canary references.

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Resolved the conflict with next in merge commit 2d24882. The PR's lean AGENTS.md and linked guidance are preserved.