Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md • Hacker News Board

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by skeledrew » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

I copy a .claude/CLAUDE.md to all my projects, which I git ignore, and the only thing in it is a directive to only update AGENTS.md.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#12

Post by frdev1786855380 » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#13

Post by Planktonne » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

I really struggle to take this whole thing seriously. ~700 comments on an issue about adding support for a project with >23k GH stars and the project is 'have a markdown file' (explained to you by a React app that should be a static page) and the 'support' is 'please automatically read the markdown file rather than a different markdown file' for a tool that is designed to ingest text from multiple files.

Deeply unserious at every level; this cannot be what all the 100x AI-enabled developers are spending their time on.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by verdverm » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

shay_ker wrote: post #6

how does agents.md work for subagents and swarms? is it actually that useful?

yes, in the tools I use, each (sub)agent will also load the same files (automatically, root is always loaded, a nested AGENTS.md is read if the dir or a peer file is touched)

yes, they are useful, mainly in that they shorten the context gathering phase and can call out gotchyas, keep it minimal

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by dude250711 » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

They want to be the Apple of AI: producing non-standard interfaces and making grandiose claims.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by Jcampuzano2 » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235#issuec...

- " Generated with Claude Code"

God I hate this world. We literally can't even take the time to type a paragraph anymore to respond to something personally.

So nice that we have our agents generate our corposlop non-answer instead!

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#17

Post by Diti » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

OleksandrC wrote: post #9

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.

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by sschueller » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

chomp wrote: post #3

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

At the current price for SSDs even a pointless symlink becomes waste...

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by pjm331 » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:08 PM UTC

Diti wrote: post #17

OleksandrC wrote: post #9

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.

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If only we had some sort of technology that enabled large scale refactoring

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC

You can inject custom Javascript into Claude Code via BUN_OPTIONS="--preload=/path/to/code.js". For example: https://gist.github.com/Wowfunhappy/002009cf9c410ed2f751bde8...

I wonder if you could use this to make the harness recognize AGENTS.md.