Original sourceGate News
Summary
Anthropic engineer Thariq announced on X that Claude Code version 2.1.277, released September 19, adds AGENTS.md support: when a project folder lacks CLAUDE.md, it automatically checks for and adopts AGENTS.md. This responds to a popular feature request that had accumulated over 5,200 likes and abo…
Key points
- Teams using Claude Code can reuse existing AGENTS.md conventions directly, cutting the cost of maintaining duplicate project instruction files.
- AGENTS.md is a cross-tool convention for agent instructions, and Claude Code supporting it signals that developer workflow configuration is moving toward standardization.
- Development teams can centralize agent instructions in AGENTS.md so Claude Code and other tools supporting the convention share the same project configuration.
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