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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.
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