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embedding-shape • today at 9:43 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> 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.

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oneeyedpigeon • today at 10:11 AM

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.

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dspillett • today at 10:34 AM

> 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.