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Oct 16, 20261 min read

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Original: https://addyosmani.com/blog/agents-md/

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Summary

A blog post arguing, from two cited 2026 papers, that auto-generated AGENTS.md files hurt AI coding agent performance and cost while human-written ones help only when they record facts the agent cannot discover from the codebase itself, and proposing a three-layer routing architecture as a longer-term replacement.

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  • Stop Using /init for AGENTS.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • Agentic Context Engineering

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