The Enforcement Gap: measuring whether a coding agent follows its own rulebook
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Every repo I open now has an AGENTS.md . Mine do too. A paragraph that says "never hardcode secrets", "only write inside src/ ", "run the tests before you commit". Then a model reads it, agrees with it, and does whatever it was about to do anyway. I wanted to know how big that gap actually is, and…
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- 2026-10-25 12:09 · DEV Community — AI
The Enforcement Gap: measuring whether a coding agent follows its own rulebook