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by brainlessdev 296 days ago
Strange website. It is made by OpenAI. I suppose they are doing this to gain visits and as marketing positioning?

There is no format here, just a filename.

Also, Anthropic/Claude is a glaring omission. I suppose people can use symbolic links if they want to and point CLAUDE.md at AGENTS.md.
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kristopolous 296 days ago
it's actually by sourcegraph and it's been up since may.

Here's where it used to go: https://web.archive.org/web/20250702163859/ampcode.com/agent...

Here's their announcement

https://ampcode.com/news/AGENT.md

The openai thing is some recent partnership I'm guessing

Interesting enough, Sourcegraph had agent.md which now 301's to agents.md (with the s).

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brainlessdev 296 days ago
Interestingly, the old one mentioned CLAUDE.md and ln -s, but the new one does not. The whole website is just a marketing/partnerships battle, it seems.
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ghuntley 296 days ago
hi, one of the folks behind this. Back in May, @sqs acquired the domain and launched the website above, committing to relocate if the agents.md domain could be acquired. In July, I put out [1] RFC 9999 as a call to the industry that we need to fix this mess. Shortly afterwards OpenAI was able to obtain the domain and thus we (Amp) followed through on the commitment and worked with other vendors to move from AGENT.md to AGENTS.md.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250708160846/https://ampcode.c...

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brainlessdev 296 days ago
This seems much more insightful than the website in the OP. Thanks!
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kristopolous 296 days ago
now? maybe so. But when it was a sourcegraph only thing (really out of their amp project, which is like byterover/cline cloud/roocloud) not so much - they really don't expend much on marketing hype.

I mean I knew about it the day it launched but I'm /probably/ crazy.

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Destiner 296 days ago
Claude is omitted, because Claude is the only agent that still doesn't support the standard filename convention.
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brainlessdev 296 days ago
The website could mention that. Since I did not discover this website's affiliation with OpenAI until I found the GitHub repo, I had assumed that this is purely an informative website, and as such I expected it to mention the agent tool most people I know use (Claude). Even if that mention is "Claude does not support this yet".
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