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Posted by fg137 16 hours ago

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md(github.com)
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syn_ayos 1 hour ago|
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vasilyoshev 2 hours ago||
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modgate 10 hours ago||
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frdev1786855380 14 hours ago||
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yishaicohen 3 hours ago||
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felixlu2026 4 hours ago||
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chomp 15 hours ago||
My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger
eigenspace 15 hours ago||
You can save a tool call by just making it a symlink
hparadiz 14 hours ago|||
This is the way.
Mossly 14 hours ago|||
You can also use @AGENTS.md which automatically concatenates the files
superfrank 14 hours ago|||
Mine does too because, while I use Codex, my non-technical co-founder uses Claude. I find Claude still will randomly ignore instructions in there. Basic things like how to name a PR or what to put in a PR description.

My experience is that what you're suggesting isn't a perfect solution.

threecheese 14 hours ago||
Are you saying this wouldn’t happen if the file had a different name? Or just that codex is better at instruction following.
superfrank 13 hours ago||
No. I'm saying that the pattern of having one instruction file that just says "read this other file" doesn't seem to work well. Having a CLAUDE.md that just says "Read AGENTS.md" resulted in Claude randomly not following the rules. We tried the other way and it didn't seem like it was any better, but also, given that AGENTS.md is the standard everywhere except for Claude Code, I don't really want CLAUDE.md to be the source of truth
sschueller 14 hours ago|||
At the current price for SSDs even a pointless symlink becomes waste...
eigenspace 14 hours ago|||
A high quality 1TB NVME SSD costs 164€ on Amazon right now.

For a 10 byte symlink, that costs one billionth of a euro.

This is like worrying about the money you lose when part of a glass of tap water evaporates.

inventor7777 14 hours ago|||
Are you serious? A symlink is probably one of the smallest files you can possibly generate.
verdverm 15 hours ago||
well I generally agree, pretty much every other harness supports looking for the various alternatives and uses them

I see this obstinance as an intent signal and one of the smaller bullet points I have for avoiding Ant

JohnMakin 14 hours ago||
cp AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md

what am I missing?

dspillett 3 hours ago||
Or better cp -a AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md (or ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md if some of your tooling doesn't play well with hardlinks but does with symlinks) then if one changes so does the other as they are the same file with two links.

Not sure how source control will deal with this though, even if it commits to git/other fine Windows users might have trouble (NTFS supports both hardlinks and symlinks, since Vista IIRC, but mklink requires elevated privileges).

verdverm 12 hours ago|||
maintenance, being a good player in the ai ecosystem
JohnMakin 10 hours ago||
this is so easy to work around though. it’s a file name. it doesnt even care about symlinks. if you want this badly it is so easy to do yourself, It’s the weirdest thing to complain about as someone who uses a multi provider system locally.
verdverm 8 hours ago||
The point is that the ease of workaround is besides the point, this is about Anthropic's approach. Lest we forget the silent nerfing, the silent prompt modifications, refusals of valid user prompts, watermarking, and lies about distillation.

After years of "darling" tech companies coming out of SV and their eventual turn against users, why do we yet again endure these dark patterns for the latest darling Anthropic?

Have we not learned from the priors? I invite others to try open weight models, you are not going to miss claude that much, the open models have come quite far the last 12 months

verdverm 4 hours ago||
Ant is also buying politicians and attempting regulatory capture, not things I'm keen to have corporations doing
douglas77 14 hours ago||
Anthropic implemented it https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/pull/459
croes 13 hours ago||
Where does your link say it’s Anthropic?
LetMeLogin 14 hours ago||
Not really Anthropic.
jpalomaki 13 hours ago|
It’s easy to end up with bunch of old stuff in AGENTS.md that latest models no longer need and what might just confuse them. See for example the story about Anthropic cutting 80% of their system prompt [1].

Maybe they feel just using the AGENTS.md written for another model and possibly different era gives bad user experience.

[1] https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering...