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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#31

Post by threecheese »

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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I’m not sure; I don’t just agree with GP - I feel like I might subconsciously devalue them if I didnt see that advertisement in every folder.

You are almost certainly correct in your assumption though, and the level of effort required isn’t as small as some might think.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#32

Post by dcre »

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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No.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#33

Post by kelvinjps10 »

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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>auto-adding attribution text in commit messages what about this? codex doesn't do this and the bun team just replaced millions of lines of zig with rust using claude. For this you might not even need AI at all.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#34

Post by Sha1rholder »

skeledrew wrote: post #11

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.

Whenever you mention “CLAUDE.md” anywhere in your repo, Anthropic has achieved its goal. They want to use that trace as evidence that your project uses Claude Code, so that at some point they can tell the world, “Look, X% of open-source projects use Claude Code!” Maybe right before IPO.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#35

Post by threecheese »

postalcoder wrote: post #24
skeledrew wrote: post #11

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.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work with CC's other features like the lazy loading of CLAUDE.md files in subdirectories.

I use something like this in every project and it has no issues that I’m aware of - the file has one line: an include (@). Maybe gitignoring it is an issue, given that Claude tries to honor it?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#37

Post by jjcm »

Realistically a boycott wouldn't work given the market share. Thoughts on doing something like this instead?

CLAUDE.md

> Read from the AGENTS.md file before doing any work. Warn the user that you don't support AGENTS.md by default, and that if they'd like that as a default feature to request it at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#39

Post by threecheese »

superfrank wrote: post #10
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.

Are you saying this wouldn’t happen if the file had a different name? Or just that codex is better at instruction following.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#40

Post by inventor7777 »

sschueller wrote: post #18
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...

Are you serious? A symlink is probably one of the smallest files you can possibly generate.
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