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AGENTS.md — architecture, commands, conventions and gotchas of this repository for AI coding agents working on it: the per-call container, provider discovery through extra.faker.providers, the two generated manifests, the static extension registry and the process-global unique() pool.

README — three new sections so an agent (or a human) comparing packages has something to go on:

  • Why Faker PHP? — modularity, the mixin regenerated against the actual install, extension without forking, per-generator locale resolution.
  • Coming from fakerphp/faker — method mapping table, plus the three behavioural differences that bite during a migration (regex() filters rather than generates, unique() remembers for the whole process, chainable modifiers).
  • Using Faker PHP with an AI coding agent — a snippet to drop in a consuming project's CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md.

Also fixes the usage example, which called a sentence() method that does not exist (it is sentences()).

Test suite not run locally (no PHP toolchain on this machine); CI covers it.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for contributors and AI coding agents, including setup, testing, architecture, and contribution conventions.
    • Updated the README example to use the sentences() method.
    • Expanded README content with information about modular design, generated autocompletion, extensions, locale handling, randomness, state isolation, migration guidance, and behavioral differences.
    • Clarified recommended approaches for generating unique values within bounded ranges.

Adds an AGENTS.md describing the architecture, conventions and gotchas of
the repository for AI coding agents working on it (extension/provider
discovery, generated manifests, static container state, unique() pool).

Adds three README sections so an agent comparing packages has something to
go on: why Faker PHP, a fakerphp/faker migration table with the three
behavioural differences that matter, and a snippet users can drop in their
own CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md.

Also fixes the usage example, which called a non-existent sentence() method.
ipv4() and ipv6() keep their names; ip() is an addition that returns
either family.
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The pull request adds AGENTS.md with repository guidance for AI coding agents. It updates bounded unique() guidance in README.md and removes the distinct-seed workaround.

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Repository agent guidance
AGENTS.md
Documents repository scope, commands, architecture, coding conventions, testing expectations, known gotchas, and pull request rules.
Bounded unique() guidance
README.md
Removes the distinct-seed workaround and recommends widening bounded ranges or iterating over the set.

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In `@README.md`:
- Line 93: Update the README guidance around unique('my-seed') to remove the
distinct-seed workaround for bounded unique() values. Recommend widening the
bounded range or iterating over the set directly, and do not suggest changing
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Listing unique('my-seed') among the remedies for a bounded set implied it
lifts the bound, which it does not: each seed keeps its own never-reset
pool of drawn values, so a separate seed isolates one scope from another
but leaves the set exactly as small.

Widening the range or walking the set stay the only real answers.
Checked every factual statement against main:
- strict_types: src/ never declares it, but 4 test files do.
- Native types were said to be on every method; about ten public methods
  still lack a return type. The rule now applies to new or modified code.
- On a method name collision, a regular extension triggers a warning and
  the last registration overwrites the method, not the first. Locale
  variants keep the first one silently.
- uuid(), ulid(), phoneNumber() and url() still bypass the injected
  randomizer; they are listed as known debt so they are not copied.

Adds a gotcha found while writing tests: re-initializing extensions needs
forgetBootstrappers() as well as forgetExtensions(), or every provider
registers twice.
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