alt Hacker News> The only difference between CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md is the filename. Do you really need a whole plugin system to support that use case? Feels like this could have been a one line change.
I don't think this is a reasonable assumption. The document format in CLAUDE.md is whatever Anthropic specifies, where AGENTS.md is a common ground format that is expected to be supported by any agent, be it from Anthropic or not.
You might argue that differences are small or negligible, but that is just an expectation.
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I think you're giving these files too much credit. There are no specs, they are freeform text. In this sense they are the same. The expectation of what could be in it by each vendor means nothing unless it's enforced.
> The document format in CLAUDE.md is whatever Anthropic specifies
Q: Do Anthropic actually specify a document format?
There is no "specification", it's literally just a text file that gets loaded into context. You don't even need to write markdown. It's not that hard man.
It's not a format though is it? it's literally just an extension to the system prompt in plain markdown.
There is no rhyme or reason to the structure of this file, just like with most things in AI. It's best effort human language.