alt Hacker NewsOnce I asked, puckishly, Claude Code to “follow the instructions in this directory” when there was only an AGENTS.md there.
In the manner of someone finding a dead mouse and holding it up for examination CC said it could find no instructions but perhaps it should check this AGENTS.md file.
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ketzu • yesterday at 10:47 PM
When I setup a global agents.md/claude.md for its communication style, I got the following response during the next session:
> The function you added is load-bear-very important [...]
I never felt this mocked by a computer.
katzgrau • yesterday at 10:28 PM
But if you said that you were migrating from another platform to Claude, my guess is that it would have happily found and converted AGENTS.md
Had a silly exchange with Codex: I had an AGENTS.md file in a directory that was a symlink to an already-created CLAUDE.md. On my first prompt to Codex, it decided to point to me that my AGENTS.md specifically calls out directions to Claude, and that it would generously re-interpret them as directions to itself, and that maybe I should fix my AGENTS.md to reference the correct agent.
Very sassy, Codex!