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Why Stale CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md Files Override Working Code in 90.1% of Runs (And the One-Sentence Fix)

Instruction files like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are usually written once when a repository sets up a coding agent and rarely touched again. Across 441 company repositories analyzed by Denisov-Blanch et al. (2026), 73.8% of AI configuration files were committed once and never modified. In a separate…

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  1. 2026-11-10 22:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Stale CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md Files Override Working Code in 90.1% of Runs (And the One-Sentence Fix)

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