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

741 points · 285 comments · datadrivenangel

  1. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
    Caught myself about to praise this, but it's the absolute bare minimum.

    Time to delete the symlinks

    1. eleventen · · focus · HN ↗
      Anthropic in 2025: We can use our dominant market position to degrade the harness experiences of our competitors because they will never adopt CLAUDE.md

      Anthropic in 2026: We are losing our market position. Users who adopted other harnesses have a degraded Claude Code experience because it doesn't recognize their AGENTS.md

      1. armanckeser · · focus · HN ↗
        Sounds like free market at work to me. I am just glad there is quite a lot of competition in a field that I would have assumed would have huge costs of entry
        1. edoceo · · focus · HN ↗
          Building small models is a lower barrier. Think of something like to just train on a corpus of internal corporate data. I've see some small models that do this. It's like a super RAG thing. I think more of that will happen. Excited to see a SLM vendor emerge.
      2. EA-3167 · · focus · HN ↗
        The walls are closing in and the president is gleefully lighting fires he has no intention of putting out. There's a reason they're rushing like mad to an IPO, but as we saw with OpenAI it's easier said than done when your business model is "Lose tons of money to eventually maybe dominate a market with the moat we don't have, but trust us AI is huge give us trillions."
        1. the_gipsy · · focus · HN ↗
          With the "let's stop AI now" statements, can it really be said that they're rushing to an IPO?
          1. TuxSH · · focus · HN ↗
            > "let's stop AI now"

            Pausing AI training would benefit them a lot, as inference is insanely profitable (> 50% margins with maximum demand, afaik)

            1. EA-3167 · · focus · HN ↗
              Basically asking the government to hobble the competition so they can IPO before the music stops.
      3. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
        Pretty typical capitalist moves.
        1. odjeifnejdjej · · focus · HN ↗
          > typical

          Cynical. The word is cynical.

          1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
            No, cynical is what we should be about capitalism.
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