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Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything (pivot-to-ai.com)
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except cost you more tokens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAq45fJln70&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260827-your-agentsmd-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything - podcast

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 13 points 2 days ago

I mean it's great if you want to automate some specific code generation in the most inefficient way possible while posing to the bosses as a forward thinking AI-first developer.

The closest anyone can come to a use for the AGENTS.md file is so you clarify your own thinking on how the project works

That just means that you are now supposed to write skill files instead of proper documentation to make your project even more inscrutable to anyone but a chatbots with a bottomless token budget.