So, a supposedly trillion dollar worth, about to IPO company thinks their moat is a specifically named Markdown file.
Why do people continue to use the word “moat” only in context of AI companies?
Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#162What's interesting is that the closure event was mysteriously deleted [0]. Compare with others like [1] which do keep the "bcherny closed this as completed 1m ago"; for some reason it's missing here, even though Boris closed it as completed in the same manner as confirmed by GitHub notifications. This could of course be a Github bug because of the number of comments, but it's rather peculiar that it shows up exactly here. Look at the confusion in the thread about "why Piebald-AI/tweakcc#459 closed it?". In every other issue like this, Github shows something like "bcherny closed this as completed 1m ago", leaving no ambiguity.
Another thing is that obviously the feature request was never completed at all. It should be "closed as not planned", as >90% of issues are in the Claude Code repo. Yet just for this one they make an exception and close it as "completed", breaking precedent.
It's so chickenshit. Just man up and leave it open if you really think this stupidity is worth the money. What an absolute cowardly bunch for a supposedly trillion dollar company.
[0] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235#event-...
[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66955#event...
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#163They wont do it. Just symlink your CLAUDE.md
> They wont do it.
That's the point of this post, Boris Cherny closed it as "completed", of course without implementing it.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#164So, a supposedly trillion dollar worth, about to IPO company thinks their moat is a specifically named Markdown file.
Why do people continue to use the word “moat” only in context of AI companies?
I don’t think that’s true? I’ve been here quite a while now and it goes back a long long time in the startup world
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#165Did something happen? Why is this on HN even though the issue's a year old?
It was closed yesterday as "completed" by Anthropic's bcherny, despite not being implemented/completed, and being by far the most requested feature that would take all of 10 seconds to implement. So yes, something happened yesterday.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#166Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#167I 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.
Markdown is still a structure. It may be a very loose one, but it still enables a reader (of any flavour) to, for example, determine which parts of the text are code and which aren't.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
GitHub API says it was closed by bcherny himself: $ gh api repos/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 --jq '{state, state_reason, closed_at, closed_by}' { "closed_at": "2026-08-17T03:37:37Z", "closed_by": { ... "id": 1761758, "login": "bcherny", "url": " https://api.github.com/users/bcherny ", }, "state": "closed", "state_reason": "completed" }
Weird, at the top of the issue it says "fixed by " in a pill.
What's even weirder is that the "bcherny closed this as completed 1d ago" is missing after his comment, even though all other issues have it, e.g. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66955#event...
A permalink actually exists for the event in the post's issue too, but it leads to nothing: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235#event-...
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#169How 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.
Every other coding harness (i.e. 9 out of the top 10) automatically read AGENTS.md. It is a universal standard. Claude Code does not.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#170This should show true nature of Anthropic, all that "safety, transparency, for the sake of humanity, not using Claude for weapons", is bs.
Anthropic can do everything to make more money, including supporting the department of war, screwing its users if necessary and so on