AGENTS.md doesn't work. Here's what did.
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I spent a long time trying to make AI coding agents follow project rules through instruction files: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, a rules folder. For a handful of basic instructions it works. Put your whole development "bible" in there and it falls apart. The pattern is probably familiar. The agent breaks…
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- 2026-09-30 12:30 · DEV Community — AI
AGENTS.md doesn't work. Here's what did.