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rootnod3 • yesterday at 6:47 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

AGENTS.md on a standard protocol. Sorry but no. You either understand the thing or you don’t.

It’s a chat protocol. Something that is supposed to be very private and secure. Seeing an AGENT.md file is a huge turn-off there, sorry to say. Feel free to burn my karma down to oblivion.


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0x1ch • yesterday at 6:49 PM

I'd actually feel pretty safe with a LLM project if spec'd against the protocol documentation as opposed to a rookie's handcoded implementation. If security is the concern, I don't think using random reimplements is very safe to begin with.

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jjice • yesterday at 8:13 PM

> Something that is supposed to be very private and secure

Not sure how using an LLM for development of the tool has any affect on this. From a security perspective, I think that would've had more validity a year or two ago, but these days, I'd argue LLMs practice better security in generated code on average than a normal developer.

From the privacy angle, I have no idea how having an AGENTS.md (for development purposes) has any impact on privacy.

I don't want to "burn [your] karma to the ground", I just want to understand this angle, because I'm not sure I see how it applies.

013 • yesterday at 7:40 PM

Do you not use AI for coding?

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