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My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger

• eigenspace 1mo ago
  You can save a tool call by just making it a symlink
  • hparadiz 1mo ago
    This is the way.
  • Mossly 1mo ago
    You can also use @AGENTS.md which automatically concatenates the files
• verdverm 1mo ago
  well I generally agree, pretty much every other harness supports looking for the various alternatives and uses them I see this obstinance as an intent signal and one of the smaller bullet points I have for avoiding Ant
• superfrank 1mo ago
  Mine does too because, while I use Codex, my non-technical co-founder uses Claude. I find Claude still will randomly ignore instructions in there. Basic things like how to name a PR or what to put in a PR description. My experience is that what you're suggesting isn't a perfect solution.
  • threecheese 1mo ago
    Are you saying this wouldn’t happen if the file had a different name? Or just that codex is better at instruction following.
    • superfrank 1mo ago
      No. I'm saying that the pattern of having one instruction file that just says "read this other file" doesn't seem to work well. Having a CLAUDE.md that just says "Read AGENTS.md" resulted in Claude randomly not following the rules. We tried the other way and it didn't seem like it was any better, but also, given that AGENTS.md is the standard everywhere except for Claude Code, I don't really want CLAUDE.md to be the source of truth
      • weplay0628 1mo ago
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• sschueller 1mo ago
  At the current price for SSDs even a pointless symlink becomes waste...
  • eigenspace 1mo ago
    A high quality 1TB NVME SSD costs 164€ on Amazon right now. For a 10 byte symlink, that costs one billionth of a euro. This is like worrying about the money you lose when part of a glass of tap water evaporates.
  • inventor7777 1mo ago
    Are you serious? A symlink is probably one of the smallest files you can possibly generate.