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"Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md file for project instructions" — Hacker News · AI & Technology
, Anthropic's agentic coding tool, now reads an file from a project to obtain instructions, but only as a when its own file is absent. This brings it in line with other AI coding tools like OpenAI's Codex CLI, which already use AGENTS.md as a standard project-instructions file. The change, noted in the official changelog, addresses a long-standing user request.
The claim is solid: it comes directly from Anthropic's official changelog for Claude Code (code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog). The Hacker News post is a secondary summary, but the underlying primary source is authoritative and the detail (fallback behavior when CLAUDE.md is absent) is confirmed by multiple secondary sources and community discussion.
Genuinely new as of September 18, 2026, the publication date of the changelog entry.