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Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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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[–] rhamph@awful.systems 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

AGENTS.md serves an invaluable purpose in prominently tagging slopware. A mark the promptfondlers can’t wait to bolt on personally!

If its content does nothing, does that mean that ‘poisoned’ contents are also nearly ineffective? Then it can be an even more straightforward slop signal.

[–] TrashGoblin@awful.systems 1 points 5 hours ago

I've wanted to put poison or "go fuck off" statements in AGENTS.md in some of my repos, but didn't want to give a false slop signal for people that see it but don't read it.