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1. askonomm · 1789765915 · focus · HN ↗

   Finally doing something standards-compliant instead of forcing users into a proprietary workflow.

   1. llm_nerd · 1789770083 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm honestly not sure if this is tongue in cheek and the "finally" is in the silly way it is often used, but the claude.md variant existed first. Indeed, the agents.md thing was pretty clearly a "that's neat, let's do that with a different name".

      1. askonomm · 1789803402 · focus · HN ↗

         Just because something is first, doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s the standard. The standard is put in place by how many harnesses use a specific pattern, and that has been AGENTS.md for a long while now. Long enough that Claude Code not supporting it is really just an act of forcing people into a proprietary workflow, because of course it&#x27;s in their interest to make moving away as painful as possible given how little moat the LLM models themselves have. In fact, I think Claude Code has been pretty much the only one not supporting AGENTS.md. Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agents.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;agents.md if you want more information on it.

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