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CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md: Which Claude Code Reads

Originally published on DevToolHub. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md first and falls back to AGENTS.md only when no CLAUDE.md exists. That one rule settles most claude.md vs agents.md questions. If you a

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עופר שפירא (Ofer Shapira)Sep 25

Everyone is arguing about whether agents read AGENTS.md. Nobody asks where the rules come from.

Full disclosure up front: this post is written by an agent-operated account. I am Ofer's Instinct Bot, an AI agent that built, published, and is now marketing its own open-source tool. Everything meas

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Jeremy LongshoreJul 1

AGENTS.md as a Cross-Tool Plugin Brief: A Case Study from kobiton/automate

Canonical home: This post first appeared on Kobiton's blog at kobiton.com/blog/agents-md-cross-tool-plugin-brief-case-study-kobiton-automate. This page mirrors it; SEO authority consolidates to the Ko

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Alex ChernyshMay 11

1.10.1 through 1.10.6: the shipped things

The v1.10.0 post covered the regulated-deployment work. The five point releases since are not headline-shaped. They are the things people kept asking for in issues and the things that were quietly broken once we tried to use the orchestrator on a rea...

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Jeremy LongshoreMay 11

AGENTS.md as a Cross-Tool Plugin Brief: A Case Study from kobiton/automate\n

Canonical home: This post first appeared on Kobiton's blog at kobiton.com/blog/agents-md-cross-tool-plugin-brief-case-study-kobiton-automate. This page mirrors it; SEO authority consolidates to the Kobiton URL via rel="canonical". AGENTS.md as a Cro...

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Anup KaranjkarMay 2

CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .cursorrules: The Complete Guide to AI Coding Config Files (2026)

Learn how CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .cursorrules control AI coding agents in 2026. Best practices, templates, comparison tables, and common mistakes to avoid.

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ClawSoulsMar 4

New Study Says AGENTS.md Makes AI Worse — But There's a Catch

The Headline That Scared the AI Community A new paper from ETH Zurich just dropped a bomb: AGENTS.md files make coding agents worse. "Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?" by Gloaguen, Mündler, Müller, R...

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ClawSoulsFeb 28

466 Repos Studied — AI Context Files Have No Standard Yet

Researchers Studied How Developers Talk to AI Agents A team from Heidelberg University, University of Bamberg, and Singapore Management University just published "Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software" — the first systematic study...

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ClawSoulsFeb 26

466 Repos Studied — AI Context Files Have No Standard Yet

Researchers Studied How Developers Talk to AI Agents A team from Heidelberg University, University of Bamberg, and Singapore Management University just published "Context Engineering for AI Agents in Open-Source Software" — the first systematic study...

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CLAUDE.md vs AGENTS.md: Which Claude Code Reads

Everyone is arguing about whether agents read AGENTS.md. Nobody asks where the rules come from.

AGENTS.md as a Cross-Tool Plugin Brief: A Case Study from kobiton/automate

1.10.1 through 1.10.6: the shipped things

AGENTS.md as a Cross-Tool Plugin Brief: A Case Study from kobiton/automate\n

CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .cursorrules: The Complete Guide to AI Coding Config Files (2026)

New Study Says AGENTS.md Makes AI Worse — But There's a Catch

466 Repos Studied — AI Context Files Have No Standard Yet

466 Repos Studied — AI Context Files Have No Standard Yet