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Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#202

Really strange; anyway it is closed source and best not to have too much reliance and attachment to any one tool. I have switched to GPT 5.5 and 5.6 Sol and Codex ove Claude already. Fable is very expensive/token limiting. I am an experienced programmer heavily using AI for many POCs now. At one time Anthropic and its models Opus,Fable looked leading; now OpenAI has caught up. I find 5.5 models more than enough for m…

To be honest I am not even bothering learning to use these harnesses much less tweaking the bare minimum configs.

I fully expect I will be switching every couple of years to a new one. And even if I don't, they will be very different then than they are today.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#203

So 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 th…

Oh is that why? Thank you! This saw me downgrade to Opus 4.8 for the past several days. I had no idea where it was coming from.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#204

So 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 th…

> and they are the only ones who don't allow me to use other harnesses with my subscription.

Google too.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#205
post #193

So 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 th…

> So many developer-hostile things lately. It is extraordinary how they managed to fuck up all of their goodwill with all these unnecessary stuff. They truly are a hostile company if I have ever seen one. And they had the entire developer community cheering for them a couple months ago. I hope they fail in their mission, whatever that is. Because I'm sure it's no benefit to anyone ever.

While they’ve certainly fucked up goodwill with their actions, it’s also true that the tech enthusiast community has always been like teenagers who reject their favorite band when it gets popular.

Oh, I used Claude before they got popular… their new stuff is trash compared to the early albums

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#206
post #193

So 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 th…

> So many developer-hostile things lately. It is extraordinary how they managed to fuck up all of their goodwill with all these unnecessary stuff. They truly are a hostile company if I have ever seen one. And they had the entire developer community cheering for them a couple months ago. I hope they fail in their mission, whatever that is. Because I'm sure it's no benefit to anyone ever.

What I find amazing is how many people are still clutching onto Claude Code like it's the only feasible tool and somehow genre-defining?

I personally got sick as f with their unreliability and hostility and bugs back in about January and switched to Codex but this is still very clearly a minority position.

I'm sure OpenAI will do the same nonsense eventually, but people need to act like they have options.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#207
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 overa…

It's not a moat, or much of a barrier because you can literally just rename it, but it is 'good' marketing/branding. People talking about CLAUDE.md is much better for Anthropic than people talking about AGENTS.md.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#209
post #124

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

just the filename. The contents of the file are unstructured, besides being markdown

But the semantic meaning can be agent-specific. For instance, my Claude.md files have things like “never present multiple questions in walls of text, use `AskUserQuestion` with clear tradeoffs described”
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