The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding coding agents

Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by eadmund on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:34AM (#44960603)

Anything with a capital letter requires hitting two keys: Shift and then the desired letter. Thus /Programs requires 10 keystrokes rather than 9. Even worse, since the capital letter is at the beginning of the directory name, I have to type it and am unable to rely on tab-completion.

/Programs with its ten keystrokes is over twice the keystrokes of /bin and its four. Short names are quicker to type and require less effort. Given that to a first approximation I spend my entire life typing on a keyboard, I very much wish to optimise that experience.

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by Timwi on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:44AM (#44962429)

That's really more the fault of the tab completion. There's no reason why it couldn't complete `prog` to `Programs`. It's just Unix tradition that they don't. I would prefer if they did.

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by fragmede on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:26PM (#44963354)

In ~/.inputrc, add

    set completion-ignore-case on

to enable case insensitive tab completion in bash.

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by Gracana on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:15PM (#44963836)

Great tip! Apparently that's readline's config file, so this will affect a lot of things. That's great news for me; after switching to zsh I got used to case-insensitive tab completion, and now it annoys me when other tools don't work that way. This should help a lot.

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Re:The AGENTS.md Standard: A simple, open format for guiding... by oblio on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:55AM (#44962533)

Your problem is solved by naming the thing /programs, instead. End of the world using full words, I tell ya!

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