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dgb23yesterday at 4:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

This is correct. All of these .md files are just blobs of text that the LLM matches against. They might increase the likelihood of something happening or not happening.

They look to me like people actually want to build deterministic workflows, but blobs of text are the wrong approach for that. The right tool is code that controls the agent through specific states and validates the tool calls step by step.


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chrisweeklyyesterday at 9:03 PM

That's not quite right. Claude treats certain md files very differently from others. See eg

https://claudefa.st/blog/guide/mechanics/claude-md-mastery

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philbittyesterday at 7:19 PM

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