Your agent's instructions file is a suggestion. A hook is a contract.
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Every coding agent now reads an instructions file. CLAUDE.md , AGENTS.md , .cursorrules , whatever yours is called. Mine is long. It has been long for months, because every time something went wrong I did the obvious thing and wrote a sentence about it. Here is what I eventually noticed. The agent…
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- 2026-10-02 09:12 · DEV Community — AI
Your agent's instructions file is a suggestion. A hook is a contract.