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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything/ - blog post 

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Sources:

• How Claude remembers your project https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
• Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? (PDF) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11988
• I've maintained a CLAUDE.md file for about 3 months now across two projects https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r89c8e/evaluating_agentsmd_are_repositorylevel_context/o69zp26/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Claude Code codebase is leaked https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/01/claude-code-codebase-is-leaked/
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