Issue #6235 asks for one thing: let Claude Code read AGENTS.md. Opened August 21, 2025, it has piled up 5,200+ reactions and 300+ comments — 4x the second-place request, the single biggest unmet ask in the entire Claude Code tracker. In May, Anthropic finally answered: “not planned for now.” This week the issue hit the HN front page again, 263 points and counting.
Why one Markdown file started a war
AGENTS.md is a plain Markdown file at repo root telling any AI coding agent how to build, test, and contribute. It’s a Linux Foundation open standard now, sitting in 60,000+ repos, read natively by Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Amp, Windsurf, and Zed. Claude Code — the market-leading coding agent — is the only holdout, insisting on its own CLAUDE.md.
Anthropic’s answer is a symlink
The official fix: ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md, or import the file from inside CLAUDE.md. That’s literally in the docs now. Anthropic’s argument: CLAUDE.md carries semantics AGENTS.md can’t — imports, hierarchy, skills mounting. The community reads it differently: when you’re winning, you don’t join standards. You ignore them.
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