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Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#182I put a reference to AGENTS.md in the CLAUDE.md file, and then put Claude specific stuff (mainly info about hooks and scripts) after that.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 tha…
OK, this argument is getting semantic and, therefore, uninteresting. I think you know what I meant, even if I used some words in a different way than you would have liked.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#184So, 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 overa…
> 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.
That's true but this is really not something that's a barrier to switching, just an annoyance for users. All it takes is a rename/symlink/reference whatever from the user's perspective. If it required a lot of rearchitecting on Anthropic's side or it was a _lot_ harder for users to adapt to I'd understand them standing their ground on this issue. But neither of those are true, it's just pettiness.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#185I put a reference to AGENTS.md in the CLAUDE.md file, and then put Claude specific stuff (mainly info about hooks and scripts) after that. https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
Yes but, should you have to do that is the question. There's a standard, and CLAUDE.md isn't it.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#186Earlier 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.
you can still access old reddit by choosing on Settings → User Preferences → Prefer classic UI or something like that
They've also been making it so the preference seemingly doesn't stick now. Used to be it would just randomly undo that setting, now it just doesn't respect it at all in my experience.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#187So many developer-hostile things lately.
Just a few days ago they turned on an experiment the forces claude code to use bash over standard tools in auto mode.
From the system prompt directly, new as of August 18th:
Do your work through the Bash tool wherever it can accomplish the job: read files with cat, head, or sed -n, search with grep and find, and make file changes with sed, heredocs, or short scripts, rather than using the dedicated Read, Edit, or Write tools. Fall back to a dedicated tool only when Bash genuinely cannot do the job.
I'm sure they'll argue they are trying to make it use less context tokens to do things, but if this is the best they could think of, ....
This is of course, also not documented anywhere, as is typical for anthropic, you just have to guess whether you are going crazy or if they changed stuff seriously on you under the covers.
This was the last straw for me. Their harness (models are fine) was already falling well behind the other one i use (OMP) in the past 6 months in usability/etc, and they are the only ones who don't allow me to use other harnesses with my subscription.
So I've now stopped using claude code entirely. Unless something changes, i'll drop my max plan when it expires next month.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#188I put a reference to AGENTS.md in the CLAUDE.md file, and then put Claude specific stuff (mainly info about hooks and scripts) after that. https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
Yes but, should you have to do that is the question. There's a standard, and CLAUDE.md isn't it.
For me it's very handy to have agent-specific instructions. Each harness does it differently and with differing levels of annoyance:
- .cursor/rules
- CLAUDE.md
- .github/copilot-instructions.md
- .aider.conf.yml
- .gemini/settings.json
A simple @AGENTS.md at the top of CLAUDE.md makes it play nice.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#189So, a supposedly trillion dollar worth, about to IPO company thinks their moat is a specifically named Markdown file.
I think it’s more branding than moat. Free advertising if every vibe coded repo on GitHub has a CLAUDE.md at the root.
And its probably also to make people think there’s something special about Claude.
Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 tha…
OK, this argument is getting semantic and, therefore, uninteresting. I think you know what I meant, even if I used some words in a different way than you would have liked.
> this argument is getting semantic
Well, it was semantic from the beginning, the whole discussion I raised is because you seem unable to understand what "structured data" actually means in reality. I know perfectly fine what you meant, and you were misinformed about the meaning, it's OK to just say "Yeah, you're right" or just don't reply at all instead of double-down on not understand the meaning of words. Anyways, enjoy your day.