Agent.md

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the Startup Ideas Podcast

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To: Global agent prompt files consume more tokens and lack specificity
“If you only change the agent.md, oftentimes, you know, first of all, it costs a lot more tokens, but also it's too general, right? It doesn't apply to every single workflow out there.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 30:23 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
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Ross Mike: Agent skills load only metadata initially to conserve tokens
“What, when you create a skill.md file, what gets added into the context is actually just the name and the description. Right? The bunch of info doesn't get added. So imagine you have two sentences versus an agent.md that has like a thousand lines that get adde…”
Ross Mike Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 5:17 How AI agents & Claude skills work (Clearly Explained)
Ross Mike: 95% of AI Agent Users Do Not Need Agent.md Files
“And then you have a lot of people have agent.md files or cloud.md files. Now I'm just going to say off rip, 95% of people don't need this. The reason being is, again, you have to assume that the models are already good, right?”
Ross Mike Apr 8, 2026 ▶ 1:59 How AI agents & Claude skills work (Clearly Explained)

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