I grew my agent instruction file from 90KB to 147KB. Violations did not drop. The 8 rules I moved into code did.
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You have a rule you want your AI agent to follow. You write it in AGENTS.md . It gets broken. You write it in more detail. Still broken. You add another clause. After 48 days of doing that, my resident instruction files went from 90KB to 147KB . Violations did not drop. Here are the numbers. All fr…
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- 2026-09-22 18:35 · DEV Community — AI
I grew my agent instruction file from 90KB to 147KB. Violations did not drop. The 8 rules I moved into code did.