Once I asked, puckishly, Claude Code to “follow the instructions in this directory” when there was only an AGENTS.md there.

In the manner of someone finding a dead mouse and holding it up for examination CC said it could find no instructions but perhaps it should check this AGENTS.md file.

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ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Had a silly exchange with Codex: I had an AGENTS.md file in a directory that was a symlink to an already-created CLAUDE.md. On my first prompt to Codex, it decided to point to me that my AGENTS.md specifically calls out directions to Claude, and that it would generously re-interpret them as directions to itself, and that maybe I should fix my AGENTS.md to reference the correct agent.

Very sassy, Codex!

	▲	DANmode 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s pretty funny. Also: did it suggest instructions for the “correct” agent, or an ambiguous agent? One has marketing implications, the other one is generally decent advice.

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ketzu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I setup a global agents.md/claude.md for its communication style, I got the following response during the next session:

> The function you added is load-bear-very important [...]

I never felt this mocked by a computer.

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katzgrau 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But if you said that you were migrating from another platform to Claude, my guess is that it would have happily found and converted AGENTS.md