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

741 points · 285 comments · datadrivenangel

TomGarden · 1789766461 · focus · HN ↗
Caught myself about to praise this, but it's the absolute bare minimum.
Time to delete the symlinks
1. eleventen · 1789771616 · 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. mitxela · 1789785940 · focus · HN ↗
    Pretty typical capitalist moves.
    odjeifnejdjej · 1789827959 · focus · HN ↗
    > typical
    Cynical. The word is cynical.
    mitxela · 1789837952 · focus · HN ↗
    No, cynical is what we should be about capitalism.

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