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- Claude Code wraps both the AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md in a system-reminder with this disclaimer at the bottom:
IMPORTANT: this context may or may not be relevant to your tasks. You should not respond to this context unless it is highly relevant to your task.
Codex follows the AGENTS.md far better. CC seems to have nudged people away from taking the CLAUDE.md as mandatory instructions.
This bug was closed Not Planned and from a recent analysis of the system prompt the behavior is still there even with the new inclusion of AGENTS.md.
by boorang - CC is such a bloated POS by this point that only full on AGI could have implemented this feature. Congrats guys. Maybe with Super Intelligence they will be able to make it actually respect the instructions in there too.by albatross79
- Once 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.
by rukuu001 - Remember they didn't do this because they wanted to help community, they did it because community was angry and they were losing users to other harnesses.
Doesn't look like Anthropic care about dev community
by throwaw12 - Don’t get too excited, Claude code still won’t detect skills on .agents/skills.by clutter55561
- I switched to oh-my-py and never looked back. I guess having an incentive to maximize (expensive) token usage, and LLMs degrading with higher context, isn't aligned with a user's best interest.
Oh-my-py unlocks max capabilities at the smartest token usage, and you can change AI company and providers while still getting things done. Roles, advisor, and the ability to use Chinese models on international providers with no training and ZDR behind OpenRouter are very powerful. You can have providers and model companies competing on price, intelligence, and speed for something that's useful but with less and less moat as model progress plateaus.
I now use GLM 5.3 for slow/planning, GLM 5.3 Flash as the default task-vision model, and DeepSeek Flash 4.1 as the advisor. Providers are ordered by cheapest at the minimum TPS I want for that model. I use it not only for coding but also as a personal assistant. I can ask it things and it gets them done automatically, like opening an issue on a repo, then having another agent ship the code, run the tests, and update master after having changed the app to autoupdate on cut release.
I can also ask it to do groceries. I use Bitwarden machine secrets and a limited virtual card connected to my phone.Something else that's very powerful is asking it to launch parallel agents to do things you know don't overlap too much.
The amount of agency we're gifted with is crazy, you can now move hundreds of hours of work with one hour of input using an open-source harness and open-weight models. I can't wait for more competitors in the chip space, and to be able to buy models etched on silicon for even higher agency, speed, and independence.
by Frannky - I recently had Claude Fable set up a new project for me and I pointed it at some existing projects to use as a guide on how I like to structure things. It created, unprompted, an AGENTS.md file and a CLAUDE.md symlink to AGENTS.md
I didn't even have that symlink in any other project - it just did it. I think it saw that one of the projects I already had was set up by Codex and that project had an AGENTS.md so perhaps it inferred that I was using both Claude and Codex, so it was politely covering both? Or maybe a recent change made this behavior default?
I was surprised and I hope they continue to seek standards.
- The fact that it took this long to add such a basic feature is a disgrace. I’m not even remotely satisfied. Bailed on Claude ages ago. Rolling Codex, Gemini, and Qwen3.8 30B. The only way I’m going back to Anthropic is if they drop and Culture Series mind.by perganomoly