Your AGENTS.md is lying: how configs drift and how to catch it
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A config does not have to be wrong to be harmful. It has to be stale. Last month I audited a repo where AGENTS.md said tests run with npm test , but the repo had moved to a Makefile two refactors ago. The instruction was harmless-looking, confidently wrong, and every agent that read it trusted it.…
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- 2026-09-20 06:28 · DEV Community — AI
Your AGENTS.md is lying: how configs drift and how to catch it