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Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#2

Post by verdverm »

choose not to support them in return if it is a real problem

otherwise a simple symlink from AGENTS.md -> CLAUDE.md works well enough

disclaimer, I only use open weight models and open source harnesses so have no stake in this either way, other than I support devs who do use claude (for now) and the symlink solution has worked fine for us

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#5

Post by verdverm »

chomp wrote: post #3

My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger

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

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#9

Post by OleksandrC »

The obvious reason is that they would prefer to have CLAUDE.md files in every repo (even if it's just a symlink to AGENTS.md). It serves as a free advertisement for them. Same reason as for auto-adding attribution text in commit messages, etc. It's the "Sent from my iPhone" of our time.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#10

Post by superfrank »

chomp wrote: post #3

My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger

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.

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