AGENTS.md Is Useless
There is a growing convention in open source: an AGENTS.md file, sometimes CLAUDE.md, sometimes .cursorrules. It is supposed to be the documentation for the AI, separate from the documentation for the humans. This is based on a sci-fi trope. The idea that an artificial intelligence needs a special language, a special format, a special protocol. That the machine cannot just read what the humans wrote — it needs its own annotated version. ...