Tweak build and test instructions in AGENTS #13251
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Some of the instructions were stale; some things seem to be base model problems like not understanding how to use file loggers.
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Updates AGENTS.md build/test guidance to reduce stale instructions and improve troubleshooting workflows for building and running tests in this repo.
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- Adds guidance to avoid piping MSBuild output and suggests using a file logger instead.
- Adds an “Individual projects” build command and tweaks bootstrap-environment wording.
- Simplifies per-project test commands and adds an example for running a single test with
--filter.
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Removes some mentions of `msbuild-build-env.{sh,bat}`, which should NOT be used when driving a build from the outside.
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Some of the instructions were stale; some things seem to be base model problems like not understanding how to use file loggers.
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Some of the instructions were stale; some things seem to be base model problems like not understanding how to use file loggers.