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by newman314 332 days ago
It would sure be nice to have some standardized conventions around this. AGENTS.md etc. It seems insane to have to have multiple files/rules for essentially the same goals just for different tools.
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Thats the convention I am using.

My CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md both just say "See AGENTS.md".

Have you heard about symlinks yet?

The idea of having a bunch of A100 GPU cycles needed to process the natural language equivalent of a file pointer makes me deeply sad about the current state of software development.

This take reminds me of the pain I experience when I watch people type website addresses into the google search box
Are you implying frontier models are running on a100s? Certainly not
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How about:

Creating a MCP server that all the agents are configured to retrieve the rules from?

Then you have to add a rule to every agent to tell it to use this tool.
Yes. Just one rule.
symlinks
Good coding and #prompting hack for coding. Imagine you have a large codebase and you work with other people and you want version control your .cursor folder. Just symlink it to another folder and version control that folder.