[me551ah]

Claude is also weird for being the only coding assistant that for some reason doesn't support AGENTS.md. Codex, Amp, Cursor all of them support it and read from it, but not claude which forces it's users to use CLAUDE.md instead.

The issue is the higest voted issue on their gitlab repo: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

[ValentineC]

My CLAUDE.md is just:

    @AGENTS.md

And Claude processes it just fine.

(I see that it's a common workaround, and there's a comment in the above link saying just this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235#issuec...)

It's a hassle having to add it to every repo that I use Claude with though, and I often use other models and harnesses too for the more trivial tasks.

[troupo]

I beg people to learn what symlinks are. The fact that "put @AGENTS.md in there" is a "common workaround" shows why programmers (good ones at least) are not going anywhere soon.

[ValentineC]

One bonus to this approach is that I can add Claude Code-specific stuff in there, that I wouldn't need for other harnesses.

[layer8]

Symlinks aren’t portable.

[ahtihn]

Symlinks are a pain if you're on Windows, I'd rather not bother with them.

[anon373839]

Gee, I wonder why that is. Do you think Anthropic’s Claude Code team are just trying to protect humanity somehow? Maybe our mortal brains just can’t comprehend the damage that supporting a non-Claude-branded standard might do...

[chorkpop]

CLAUDE.md has been incredibly successful for them advertising wise. I wouldn’t expect them to admit AGENTS.md exists anytime soon.

[bandrami]

So there's this amazing thing called a symlink

[hexsprite]

I created a Claude Code plugin to load AGENTS.md. Uses symlinks but it’s better than no support.

https://github.com/hexsprite/claude-agents-md

[arcanemachiner]

Claude Code supports native imports: `@AGENTS.md`

[OJFord]

To be fair if you can do it through some kind of plugin or skill it does spare you having a CLAUDE.md of `@AGENTS.md` in every repo individually.

[troupo]

You two realise that symlinks exist, right? That you need neither a "plugin" nor a "native import"?