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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by verdverm »

bryan0 wrote: post #105
Systemerror7A69 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Theres a study from earlier this year which suggests the opposite: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988 Most of the agents.md and what people use it for / write into is does, in fact, not make a difference. Now, sure, this study is a bit old for LLM standards - as everything beyond the current month is - but a) I haven't seen any tangible evidence to the contrary and b) Since the basic inner workings of LLMs haven't chan…

That's not what the study says. from the abstract: > We conclude that while context files are useful for specifying non-standard coding practices, any attempts to improve performance should be rigorously evaluated before deployment. The purpose of AGENTS.md is not to improve "coding performance" as the study looked at, it's to give an agent practical instructions that are useful to your specific workflow. For example…

this right here, call out your project best practices and peculiarities in AGENTS.md

I suspect eventually this will move to fine-tuning, there are multi-tenant LoRAs on the horizon that will let us keep paying per-token on FTs

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#112

Post by MrGilbert »

Maybe I miss a bit of information here, but I'm wondering why a random PR in a repository (https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/pull/459) can close an issue in an unrelated repository (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235)?

Is that a misconfiguration, or is that on purpose for Github? I never noticed that before.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#113

Post by LaurensBER »

monksy wrote: post #88
areoform wrote: post #26

This reminds me of Reddit killing off third-party clients and Twitter doing the same. The decline wasn't immediately obvious at first, but it happened and it capped the growth trajectory of both. Twitter never grew as fast as it did during the third-party client and applications era. Reddit isn't adding meaningful, human-written content as fast as it was in that era. There's a lot more activity now, but based purely…

Reddit is undergoing an even worse tragetory right now: They're a lot heavier on the censorship and sidewide ban. Subs are being astroturfed as much or worse than usual. On top of that they're trying to stop anonymous browsing by paywalling on a timer.

My Reddit account is 14 years old, I've decided to stop using the website and overwrite all historical comments with a protest message.

I honestly did not enjoy it anymore, almost all subs feel political these days (and the worst kind of politics, American politics ;)), the hive mind downvotes everything that it disagrees with (irrespective of the merit or quality of the message) and you get bans for seemingly everything if the mods disagree with you (/r/UnitedKingdom for criticizing the government motability scheme, /r/Europe for "rape belittlement" for a message in which I mentioned _war crimes_ such as rape. I guess calling it a war crime isn't serious enough...).

Glad to have ditched it! It's a shame there isn't a similar community like old Reddit but I guess we'll get one at some point!

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#114

Post by pixlmint »

dalenw wrote: post #50
annzabelle wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What tools do you find are better? I have been happy with Claude Code lately, but I haven't explored other options much in over a year. Curious to try something else out if it's less rambling and tangential.

Not OP but I like OpenCode a lot. But OhMyPi: https://omp.sh/ is also taking off. Personally I didn't like it as much as OpenCode.

yeh i tried pi, as a neovim user i naturally like customizability, but with how little i use agents, i want something that just works, which opencode does for me.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#115

Post by QuantumNomad_ »

MrGilbert wrote: post #112

Maybe I miss a bit of information here, but I'm wondering why a random PR in a repository ( https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/pull/459 ) can close an issue in an unrelated repository ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 )? Is that a misconfiguration, or is that on purpose for Github? I never noticed that before.

I don’t see that the issue was closed by that PR. Where do you see that?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#116

Post by nextaccountic »

ghostpepper wrote: post #90
monksy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is undergoing an even worse tragetory right now: They're a lot heavier on the censorship and sidewide ban. Subs are being astroturfed as much or worse than usual. On top of that they're trying to stop anonymous browsing by paywalling on a timer.

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.

They are also slowly killing /r/all ahead of the elections

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#117

Post by djc404 »

stingraycharles wrote: post #98
blevinstein wrote: post #96

Workaround: local symlink from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, inside each repo. It's not pretty, but it works, and it has become my standard practice, so that I get consistent behavior between claude cursor codex etc.

I put “@AGENTS.md” in a sibling CLAUDE.md which makes it a bit more explicit and don’t want to run into compatibility issues with the different types of OS’es / filesystems people are using. But yeah, I think the ultimate goal of Anthropic is just to have a CLAUDE.md in every repository for marketing.

You can also use .claude/CLAUDE.md which will be found. I symlink that to my AGENTS.md which keeps my top level dir clean

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#118

Post by duskdozer »

simoncion wrote: post #95
ghostpepper wrote: post #90

Earlier 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.

> 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."

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#119

Post by phito »

blevinstein wrote: post #96

Workaround: local symlink from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, inside each repo. It's not pretty, but it works, and it has become my standard practice, so that I get consistent behavior between claude cursor codex etc.

Is there a way to make this with for both window and Linux users through git?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#120

Post by PieUser »

MrGilbert wrote: post #112

Maybe I miss a bit of information here, but I'm wondering why a random PR in a repository ( https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc/pull/459 ) can close an issue in an unrelated repository ( https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 )? Is that a misconfiguration, or is that on purpose for Github? I never noticed that before.

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" }

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