Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?
The article discusses the relevance of maintaining instruction files like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md for coding agents. It questions whether users still find value in these files despite their limited adherence to rules. The author invites feedback on the effectiveness and content of these files from the community.
- ▪The article poses a question about the maintenance of instruction files for coding agents.
- ▪It highlights that many users do not expect strict adherence to the rules outlined in these files.
- ▪The author seeks community input on the effectiveness and content of CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md.
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For people using coding agents regularly: do you still invest time in repo-level instruction files like CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, etc.?It's not a surprise that you don't expect the rules there to be followed even with less than 100 lines of changes. Yet still see folks like Karpathy post rules around with hundreds of stars.Tell me if you're still spending the effort of trying claude.md, and are they effective, what're you writing in it.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.