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Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

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askonomm · 1789765915 · focus · HN ↗
Finally doing something standards-compliant instead of forcing users into a proprietary workflow.
1. swyx · 1789769164 · focus · HN ↗
  fwiw, i am with thariq <a href="https://x.com/trq212/status/2092302273099796842" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/trq212/status/2092302273099796842 in that prompts should be tuned for models and in fact blindly applying agents.md is probably an antipattern unless you want all models to basically converge to some common ill defined of instruction following - good local minima, bad global minima for model diversity and exploration of intelligence.
  aka, sometimes it really is too early to force a standard
  1. willsmith72 · 1789769909 · focus · HN ↗
    depends what you're doing. if you've got a specialized agent deployed in prod, of course your evals and prompts will be targeted towards 1 specific version of a model.
    on the other hand if it's just a local coding/"use my computer" agent, i highly doubt the effort in maintaining different prompts is worth any gain in performance

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