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Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by verdverm »

verdverm wrote: post #109
JohnMakin wrote: post #87

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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.

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? H…

Ant is also buying politicians and attempting regulatory capture, not things I'm keen to have corporations doing

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by dom96 »

spaqin wrote: post #93
operatingthetan wrote: post #91

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They are trying to stop scraping, I guess.

Scrapers won't be stopped by needing an account; in the recent discussion [0] about this, someone mentioned that there's even a JSON API you can use - by appending .json to any post! It's to drive engagement... for the advertisers. They gotta keep the valuation up after the IPO. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015533

I exposed this JSON API in the same style as their original API at api.reddiw.com and they banned my account without warning. I explicitly included my reddit username in the user-agent so that they could reach out if they had a problem with it. Nope, straight to banning my decade old account.

The company has turned evil sadly.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#154

Post by oneeyedpigeon »

I feel like we've missed a trick here. The purpose of AGENTS.md—to make metadata about a project available in a structured format—seems far more valuable than to limit it to just those projects that use AI or those projects that do, but don't require any other kind of automated processing.

Why not iterate on README.md with something like PARSEME.md?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#156

Post by flir »

duskdozer wrote: post #118
simoncion wrote: post #95

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> 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/ >

I haven't been able to access old reddit for ages, but it is different now. Previously, they just gave me that obnoxious fedora-reddit-guy "whoa there pardner!" and some anti-bot message I think, but now it explicitly says "Log in to use old Reddit. To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit."

logged-out users have been blocked if using a VPN for a while.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#158

Post by embedding-shape »

moezd wrote: post #124

So, a supposedly trillion dollar worth, about to IPO company thinks their moat is a specifically named Markdown file.

Making your tool less compatible with the rest of the ecosystem at large not only makes it harder to move to your tool, but also harder to move away from your tool. Given these AI labs basically have no moat, seems they're trying to hold on to every little piece they can do make it harder to move away, even if it's a really tiny and marginal feature, like specifically titled file on disk... Kind of embarrassing overall, but I guess they make so much money no people there have any shame left to feel.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#160

Post by embedding-shape »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #154

I feel like we've missed a trick here. The purpose of AGENTS.md—to make metadata about a project available in a structured format—seems far more valuable than to limit it to just those projects that use AI or those projects that do, but don't require any other kind of automated processing. Why not iterate on README.md with something like PARSEME.md?

> The purpose of AGENTS.md—to make metadata about a project available in a structured format

AGENTS.md is not "structured format", then it'd be JSON or YAML or some other fucked up format instead. Currently at least, it's fully freeform and you can put whatever there, agents will do there best to follow it.

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