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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by [deleted] »

LaurensBER wrote: post #113
monksy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is undergoing an even worse tragetory right now: They're a lot heavier on the censorship and sidewide ban. Subs are being astroturfed as much or worse than usual. On top of that they're trying to stop anonymous browsing by paywalling on a timer.

My Reddit account is 14 years old, I've decided to stop using the website and overwrite all historical comments with a protest message. I honestly did not enjoy it anymore, almost all subs feel political these days (and the worst kind of politics, American politics ;)), the hive mind downvotes everything that it disagrees with (irrespective of the merit or quality of the message) and you get bans for seemingly everyt…

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#142

Post by MrGilbert »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #115
MrGilbert wrote: post #112

Maybe I miss a bit of information here, but I'm wondering why a random PR in a repository ( https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/pull/459 ) can close an issue in an unrelated repository ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 )? Is that a misconfiguration, or is that on purpose for Github? I never noticed that before.

I don’t see that the issue was closed by that PR. Where do you see that?

Next to the closed indicator at the top is a drop-down, which reads "Fixed by: Piebald-AI/tweakcc #459".

It also reads "Remaining: #58639 #29385"

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#143

Post by progval »

simoncion wrote: post #95
ghostpepper wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They finally killed the `old.reddit.com` subdomain for logged-out users this week, which was the final push I needed to stop even idly browsing. I've been using the site since at least the digg exodus in 2010.

> They finally killed the `old.reddit.com` subdomain for logged-out users this week... Is it a gradual shutdown? [0] works just fine for me, and I don't and have never had a Reddit account so I'm always logged out. I've visited a few of the comment threads on that page and they all display just fine. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/ >

It worked for me (from two French IP addresses in different ASs) for two or three weeks since people started talking about. Now it's gone too.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#145

Post by pronik »

At the project level, there should be no need for an AGENTS.md. Whatever you might want to let agents know you would let a human know too, so you should be writing a README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md and whatever else.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#146

Post by tdeck »

pronik wrote: post #145

At the project level, there should be no need for an AGENTS.md. Whatever you might want to let agents know you would let a human know too, so you should be writing a README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md and whatever else.

I find agents need a lot of verbose instructions that are a waste of space for people. Things that are better said in a PR comment for people if needed are better front loaded for agents. People benefit from concise documentation that they are thus more likely to actually read.

For example, "don't write comments that reference things that you removed from the code" is commonly needed for coding agente and almost never needed for people.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#147

Post by theshrike79 »

pronik wrote: post #145

At the project level, there should be no need for an AGENTS.md. Whatever you might want to let agents know you would let a human know too, so you should be writing a README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md and whatever else.

AGENTS.md is specifically for agents. Every time you launch an agent in a repo, it's the agent's first time existing in the universe. This file lets it orient with the project.

Humans don't need it. Nor do they need to be reminded to launch subagents for simple tasks for example - which is another command that belongs in AGENTS.md.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#148

Post by morbicer »

wfurney wrote: post #52
HDBaseT wrote: post #45

How exactly does Claude not support AGENTS.md? I can ask Claude to review AGENTS.md and it will read it. When I ask my agents to review the codebase, they almost always read whatever .md files exist.

Claude code will only read the other .md files after you take a turn to prompt it, not when the session starts. So if I run `/clear` it will retain the CLAUDE.md context but not AGENTS.md.

This plus auto-discovery of nested non-root CLAUDE.mds in a more complex setup (monnorepo or even a big project with different parts)

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#150

Post by aabhay »

tdeck wrote: post #146
pronik wrote: post #145

At the project level, there should be no need for an AGENTS.md. Whatever you might want to let agents know you would let a human know too, so you should be writing a README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md and whatever else.

I find agents need a lot of verbose instructions that are a waste of space for people. Things that are better said in a PR comment for people if needed are better front loaded for agents. People benefit from concise documentation that they are thus more likely to actually read. For example, "don't write comments that reference things that you removed from the code" is commonly needed for coding agente and almost neve…

In general, Claude family models write absolutely terrible comments, docs, and prose. It’s basically the number 1 thing that caused everyone on my team to migrate away from Anthropic models completely.
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