naming of "special files"?

[kmindi]

Is there a more precise term than special files for these special files?

The original name was "Readme-files", but I think this is insufficient to finding them, and gives currently only results for README and Changelog.

[ghost]

Agreed, this was the first repository that came up on my google search results.

[apolopena]

Six years later and there still is no term ¯\(ツ)/¯
If we invent a term that makes more sense, it could be adopted or maybe just not that many people care about this.
The best I could come up with is project meta files.
I had to write a command line tool that took an option to move these files to another location so I ended up going with:
--move-meta-files