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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by meander_water on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:04AM (#44958771)
There shouldn't be anything stopping you from doing that.

You can just use the AGENTS.md file as an index pointing to other doc files.

This example does that -

https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/AGENTS.md

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by setopt on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:13AM (#44958817)
The point is that .agents is a hidden file while AGENTS.md is in your face like a README intended for humans.

Having an in-your-face file that links to a hidden file serves no purpose.

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by meander_water on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:23AM (#44958870)
I don't see the point of having it hidden though. Having it "in your face" means you can actively tune it yourself, or using the LLM itself.
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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by pacifika on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:15AM (#44959143)
Webservers convention not to serve hidden files
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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by selcuka on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:21PM (#44967525)
RFC 5785 (/.well-known/) breaks this convention, but sure, you are right in general.
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