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How to Use AGENTS.md in Any Repo: A Practical Guide for 2026

How to use AGENTS.md files in any repo - practical guide for AI coding agents

A year ago, every AI coding tool wanted its own instruction file. Cursor had .cursorrules, Claude Code had CLAUDE.md, Copilot had its own thing. If you worked with more than one agent, you maintained the same instructions twice and watched them drift out of sync. That mess has a fix now. AGENTS.md is a single … Read more