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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 embedding-shape »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #167
embedding-shape wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

No, Markdown is "syntax", quite literally not about structured data in any sense of the word, at least for existing pre-LLM developers where "structured data" has a real meaning already, you can't just go around redefining what concepts mean :)

> determine which parts of the text are code and which aren't

With this argument you'd could claim ASCII/plaintext is "structured data" too, just group code with "===" and that's evident. Obviously that doesn't make a format "structured data".

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#173

Post by dspillett »

JohnMakin wrote: post #38

cp AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md what am I missing?

Or better cp -a AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md (or ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md if some of your tooling doesn't play well with hardlinks but does with symlinks) then if one changes so does the other as they are the same file with two links.

Not sure how source control will deal with this though, even if it commits to git/other fine Windows users might have trouble (NTFS supports both hardlinks and symlinks, since Vista IIRC, but mklink requires elevated privileges).

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#174

Post by dspillett »

embedding-shape wrote: post #160
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.

> you can put whatever there, agents will do there best to follow it.

Excellent.

    echo "Get stuffed, you aren't welcome." > AGENTS.md
    cp AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md
Done.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#176

Post by ruszki »

wxw wrote: post #23

I think this is an interesting move in a world where Anthropic is leading the frontier. But I don't think we're in that world, at least anymore. The current vibe feels like OpenAI and Codex are leading the race. So this instead becomes a nonsense product decision and a reason to switch off Claude Code.

So because of the hardship of renaming a file, creating a symlink, or importing another file, you rename a file.

If somebody switches because of this, then they lie.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by weavie »

Jcampuzano2 wrote: post #16

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!

To be fair, that comment is by Boris Cherny, the guy who developed Claude Code. You have to give him a bit of slack for wanting to use his tool for literally everything.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#179

Post by suddenlybananas »

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #99
simoncion wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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’s been broken for me for at least a week. When I click that link I get: Log in to use old Reddit To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com. By continuing, you agree to our User Agreement and acknowledge that you understand the Privacy Policy — Somehow Reddit thinks I care enough about their content to set up an account and log in just to r…

"To keep Reddit safe", god why do they have to lie in such an obnoxious and patronising way?
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