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

741 points · 285 comments · datadrivenangel

  1. datadrivenangel · · focus · HN ↗
    This allows us to remove our one line Claude.md files that just say "AGENTS.MD"
    1. whalesalad · · focus · HN ↗
      ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md
      1. lolpython · · focus · HN ↗
        Fine if you don't need to git checkout the repo on Windows :)
        1. skeledrew · · focus · HN ↗
          Wow, still not there yet. After all these years.
          1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
            Windows does actually have symlinks but I don't think I've ever seen anything actually use them, and I don't myself because it smells of interop issues with other windows apps.

            Even to this day Windows has all kinds of problems around long file paths in its ecosystem.

            1. TeMPOraL · · focus · HN ↗
              > Even to this day Windows has all kinds of problems around long file paths in its ecosystem.

              To this day I don't know if it's a Windows problem or a Python problem, because I never encountered this - and never realized this problem exists - except for some random Python code whose docs tell me to set some registry value because of "long paths issue".

              1. pixl97 · · focus · HN ↗
                The worst offenders I've found are powershell and .Net related stuff.

                You can have all the right flags enabled, then unexpectedly you'll run some commandlet and get a path too long error.

                Now if your on W11/W25 and the lastest PS it might all work, but W16 and PS versions between now and then had all kinds of things pop up.

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