Anthropic finally adds AGENTS.md support to Claude Code

Anthropic added AGENTS.md support to its Claude Code CLI, letting developers feed repository-specific instructions to the coding agent.

According to Hacker News discussion, Anthropic's Claude Code command-line coding agent now supports AGENTS.md files. AGENTS.md is an emerging convention for giving AI coding agents project-level instructions such as build commands and code conventions. The announcement drew 41 points and 7 comments on Hacker News.

• Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md for project-specific agent instructions
• AGENTS.md is a vendor-neutral convention adopted by several AI coding tools