Anthropic finally adds AGENTS.md support to Claude Code

deaux 45 points 10 comments September 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

deaux

It took the Shopify CEO tweet and Astra causing a large move towards Codex for them to finally give in. It's hard to believe it was worth it in the end. On the other hand, most people will forget about this saga in a few months, so sadly it may just have been worth it.

grim_io

Not going to use Twitter without Nitter, so I'll just assume that's good news. Maybe I can finally delete that useless symlink to the actual AGENTS.md.

luckystarr

Finally. Now I can remove all my symlinks. :)

water-drummer

Vendor locks over md file names is crazy

clutter55561

From their changelog: 2.1.277 September 18, 2026 Added AGENTS.md support: in a project with no CLAUDE.md, Claude Code reads AGENTS.md instead; change it under “Project instructions” in /config (not yet on Bedrock, Vertex or Foundry) Note that this *does not include .agents/skills*. Argh.

ChrisArchitect

Some later discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760187

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