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How to Audit AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for Stale Instructions — Without Deleting Anything

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AI coding agents keep improving. Their instruction files usually move in only one direction: they grow. A new workaround goes into AGENTS.md . A tool-specific rule lands in CLAUDE.md . A Skill is copied for a second setup. Months later, paths move, tools disappear, two rules disagree, and nobody is…

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  1. 2026-08-30 08:22 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Audit AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for Stale Instructions — Without Deleting Anything

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