AGENTS.md

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when there is no CLAUDE.md · id PC-042 · checked_on 2026-10-31 · license CC-BY-4.0

Error strings

Situation

A repository has an AGENTS.md for other tools and a CLAUDE.md for Claude Code.

Symptom

Claude Code ignores your AGENTS.md rules.

Cause

By default Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when there is no CLAUDE.md in the working directory or above it.

Fix

Put @AGENTS.md as an import in CLAUDE.md, or remove the CLAUDE.md.

Snippet

printf '@AGENTS.md\n' > CLAUDE.md

Verify

Start Claude Code in that directory and ask it to name the instruction files it loaded.

Source

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory

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