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ftchd • yesterday at 1:58 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> The AGENTS.md thing kind of epitomizes the whole reason I decided to quit using Claude Code.

Do I understand correctly that this decision was taken based on something that's not accurate? Claude has been reading AGENTS.md files for a while now.


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artdigital • yesterday at 2:31 PM

> Claude has been reading AGENTS.md files for a while now.

No it hasn’t, this is a very recent addition. Previously you had to symlink CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, or include a @AGENTS.md in your Claude file, but by itself it would not read it

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cyberclimb • today at 12:39 AM

This only changed recently, in fact the author joked about it happening in response to them switching to pi the day before