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Your AGENTS.md is lying to your agent. So was my linter.

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AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md rot silently. You write "setup is npm run build ", "the entry point is src/index.ts ", someone renames a script, and the instruction quietly becomes a lie. The agent believes it and breaks things. So I built reflint : a linter that ignores wording and style entirely and chec…

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  1. 2026-08-23 01:39 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AGENTS.md is lying to your agent. So was my linter.

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