Agents.md
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To: Foundational design systems prevent AI from being too literal
“Now, if you only provide a portion of it or something too specific, the AI tends to sort of like take that too literally. But if you provide something more, ah, like a foundational system, like a process, agents.md and what not, then you get something that giv…”
Rauch: Anthropic long refused to support agents.md, requiring claude.md files
“For example, I don't know if they've adapted yet, but Anthropic for a long time was not playing ball with agents.md. You could only call their instructions claude.md.”
Emberikos: Nearly all AI agents except Claude adopted OpenAI's agents.md standard
“Pretty much every agent except Claude uses agents.md, which is awesome.”
Emberikos: Sourcegraph's AMP punches above its weight and initiated agent standards
“Their product has a great reputation of just being, like, you know, punching way above its weight, but I think the other thing that I really respect is that they helped initiate this whole, like, standardization around, like, agents.md and, like, dot agents sl…”
OpenAI is contributing AgentsMD to the new Agentic AI Foundation ecosystem
“In a similar way, the agentic foundation is, well, it's a foundation, but also it's like the starting point where I really look forward to other contributions, like starting with Goose, our own AgentsMD, where we're really open for like a lot of technical cont…”
Agent ecosystems need common standards but diverse, competing concrete agent implementations
“Like, agents.md is an example, which is open up any GitHub repository, it has this file, it works the same way. Like, if everyone sort of did their own thing there, That's very low value, potentially damaging in a way. But so there's commonality value, whereas…”
Ma: ChatGPT Codex recognizes sub-directory instruction hierarchies in agents.md
“We put a lot of effort into making sure the agent, like, understand this hierarchy of instructions, right? You can put them in sub-directories, and it'll understand which ones take precedence over which others.”
Embiricos: OpenAI open-sourced Codex CLI to standardize agent safety
“Part of why we made the Codex CLI open source is, like, a lot of problems, like, safety issues that you need to figure out for how to deploy these things safely, and no one should have to figure these out, like, more than once. So, that's why we went for, like…”