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

741 points · 285 comments · datadrivenangel

  1. askonomm · · focus · HN ↗
    Finally doing something standards-compliant instead of forcing users into a proprietary workflow.
    1. swyx · · focus · HN ↗
      fwiw, i am with thariq <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;trq212&#x2F;status&#x2F;2092302273099796842" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;trq212&#x2F;status&#x2F;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. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
        By this logic you&#x27;d probably be wise to tier your claude.md by model (sonnet&#x2F;opus) as well as effort level too, considering the varying failure modes
        1. swyx · · focus · HN ↗
          except they have similar pretrain&#x2F;rlhf data which is the thing u really want to tune for
          1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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          2. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
            YMMV but for me even models in the same family fail in different ways, and every incremental update changes it
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