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Can't we standardize on AGENTS.md instead of all these specific CLAUDE.md and now GEMINI.md. I just symlink now to AGENTS.md

by eisbaw 1y ago

22c 1y ago
Hmm kinda makes sense to keep them separate because the agents perform differently, right? You might want to tell Claude not to write so many comments but you might want to tell Gemini not to reach for Kotlin so much, or something. A unified approach might be nice, but using the same prompt for all of the LLM "coding tools" is probably not going to be as nice as having prompts tailored for each specific tool.
- seunosewa 1y ago
  Put in the file: Instructions for Claude: - ... - ... Instructions for Gemini: - ... - ...
  - breakingcups 1y ago
    But then the irrelevant instructions are just cluttering the context.
    - seunosewa 1y ago
      Most of the instructions will be suitable for all the models. Only a few will be model-specific.
  - asadm 1y ago
    that just overloads the agents context and decreases performance.
vincelt 1y ago
Agreed. If there are provider-specific differences then we should be able to add CLAUDE/GEMINI.md to take precedence, but most things in there are basic or general information and should apply to all providers (same for .cursor/, .windsurfrules/, ..)
kaycebasques 1y ago
I agree that we should standardize on AGENTS.md but Gemini CLI does at least let you configure the filename: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/3a369ddec3b226dea9d1a9dcc3bae048310edffd/docs/cli/configuration.md?plain=1#L36 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/3a369ddec3b... Claude Code seems to require the CLAUDE.md filename. https://technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/ https://technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/
luisrudge 1y ago
I think this whole thing sucks.. we should have a single way of setting these instructions that all agents will read. not sure why they feel they need to own that part. seems so petty. do you think something like this would be useful? https://github.com/luisrudge/dot-ai/ https://github.com/luisrudge/dot-ai/ basically a cli that generates files for multiple AI tools based on a single source

Can't we standardize on AGENTS.md instead of all these specific CLAUDE.md and now GEMINI.md. I just symlink now to AGENTS.md

by eisbaw 1y ago

Can't we standardize on AGENTS.md instead of all these specific CLAUDE.md and now GEMINI.md. I just symlink now to AGENTS.md

22c 1y ago

Hmm kinda makes sense to keep them separate because the agents perform differently, right? You might want to tell Claude not to write so many comments but you might want to tell Gemini not to reach for Kotlin so much, or something. A unified approach might be nice, but using the same prompt for all of the LLM "coding tools" is probably not going to be as nice as having prompts tailored for each specific tool.

seunosewa 1y ago
Put in the file: Instructions for Claude: - ... - ... Instructions for Gemini: - ... - ...
- breakingcups 1y ago
  But then the irrelevant instructions are just cluttering the context.
  - seunosewa 1y ago
    Most of the instructions will be suitable for all the models. Only a few will be model-specific.
- asadm 1y ago
  that just overloads the agents context and decreases performance.

vincelt 1y ago

Agreed. If there are provider-specific differences then we should be able to add CLAUDE/GEMINI.md to take precedence, but most things in there are basic or general information and should apply to all providers (same for .cursor/, .windsurfrules/, ..)

kaycebasques 1y ago

I agree that we should standardize on AGENTS.md but Gemini CLI does at least let you configure the filename: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/3a369ddec3b226dea9d1a9dcc3bae048310edffd/docs/cli/configuration.md?plain=1#L36 https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/blob/3a369ddec3b... Claude Code seems to require the CLAUDE.md filename. https://technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/ https://technicalwriting.dev/ai/agents/

luisrudge 1y ago

I think this whole thing sucks.. we should have a single way of setting these instructions that all agents will read. not sure why they feel they need to own that part. seems so petty. do you think something like this would be useful? https://github.com/luisrudge/dot-ai/ https://github.com/luisrudge/dot-ai/ basically a cli that generates files for multiple AI tools based on a single source