Re:Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
by nielstron on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:04AM
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Exactly my thoughts... the model should just auto ingest README and CONTRIBUTING when started.
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Re:Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
by rmnclmnt on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:05AM
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And that makes total sense. Honestly working since a few days with Opus 4.6, it really feels like a competent coworker, but need some explicit conventions to follow … exactly when onboarding a new IC! So i think there is a bright light to be seen: this will force having proper and explicit contribution rules and conventions, both for humans and robots
Re:Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
by delaminator on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @07:57AM
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You could have claude --init create this hook and then it gets into the context at start and resume
Or create it in some other way
{
"hookSpecificOutput": {
"hookEventName": "SessionStart",
"additionalContext": "<contents of your file here>"
}
}
Re:Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?
by delaminator on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @10:44AM
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Unlike other content - what you put in here survives compacting