Nice. Thanks!

First feature to borrow after peaking into openai repos? ))

Wake up babe, new recursive self learning technique just dropped.

Thanks guys, you did the right thing.

Don't worry, it's on the roadmap for Q4 2029.

They probably have an explicit instruction in their own CLAUDE.md to not implement that support.

A post-checkout git hook can handle this unfortunate situation.

  mkdir -p ~/.githooks
  git config --global core.hooksPath ~/.githooks

  cat > ~/.githooks/post-checkout <<'EOF'
  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  if [ -d .agents/skills ] && [ ! -e .claude/skills ]; then
      mkdir -p .claude
      ln -s ../.agents/skills .claude/skills
  fi
  EOF

  chmod +x ~/.githooks/post-checkout

oh god. sorry.

Just .gitignore CLAUDE.md and handle it locally. Checking in a symlink would be weird.

are you though?

Windows supports it but git disables creating symlinks by default.

Short version: there is no exact equivalent for POSIX symlinks on Windows, and the closest thing is unavailable for non-admins by default unless Developer Mode is enabled and a relatively recent Windows 10 version is used. Therefore, symlink emulation support is only turned on by default when that scenario is detected. Support can be enabled by the user, via the core.symlinks=true config setting.

See: https://gitforwindows.org/symbolic-links.html

Windows does mklink. Not surprised with git.

Windows does actually have symlinks but I don't think I've ever seen anything actually use them, and I don't myself because it smells of interop issues with other windows apps.

Even to this day Windows has all kinds of problems around long file paths in its ecosystem.

Only took them a year and a half of everyone complaining to finally do the right thing.

Congrats.

Context

“I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.,”

- Tobi Lütke on X.

Caught myself about to praise this, but it's the absolute bare minimum.

Time to delete the symlinks

They have achieved AGI/RSI internally and it told them "common, let's sort this s..t out, it's embarrasing".

yep, all i want is freedom to make a workflow where i don't feel tied to one provider, CC is exactly what i don't wanna get trapped in. I'll happily use claude MODELS, but if it means i have to keep learning two harnesses side by side to keep using one particular provider, then the second i can easily replace it, i am going to(even if its a small drop in performance).

Remember they didn't do this because they wanted to help community, they did it because community was angry and they were losing users to other harnesses.

Doesn't look like Anthropic care about dev community

A reminder that needs to be said: Don't use a closed-source harness.

Why? This is why. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694

Finally, I can delete `sync-agent-docs.sh`, which recursively symlinked AGENTS.md to GEMINI.md and CLAUDE.md...

Good one

I think it is not actually reliable the way I did it, but the idea was to have it automatically detect nested AGENTS.md

Does your tech do that?

Anyway, the joke is on me I guess, because it might not work reliably.

Justba prompt change.

Seems agents understand their own bugs now. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/9252 has 88 thumbs up and a workaround (switch to raw mode with Alt+R) found in a comment. Codex suggested the workaround to me today when I complained about its multi-line bash command being corrupted on paste because of the two-space indent in Codex's code blocks.

yay! /s

Why are people still putting up with this kind of attitude, especially when there are so many good alternatives available?

Still can't read what their models vomit at me.

You still need to define assumptions somehow. What you want and what the model wants will not match up by default.

do you just manually type out your important instructions every time instead of being smart and putting a few lines in a text file?

About time!

Wow..... Progress and technical innovation right here!!!

This is not a news to celebrate, they must follow standards

why did it take so long?

There goes their moat...

This just be a recession indicator

Once I asked, puckishly, Claude Code to “follow the instructions in this directory” when there was only an AGENTS.md there.

In the manner of someone finding a dead mouse and holding it up for examination CC said it could find no instructions but perhaps it should check this AGENTS.md file.

Great, now please standardize the skills folder and the MCP config.

Claude also checks your settings.json first, and if it sees a default there it then prefers that over anything in CLAUDE.md. This is particularly nefarious as they ship logic to presume a default if a setting is not there in settings.json, even if there are instructions in CLAUDE.md for exactly that.

For instance, say you added "do not add 'Made with Claude Code' in any issues, pull requests or wiki entries" in your CLAUDE.md. So far, so good.

Well the latest update now looks for something in your settings.json. Since you don't know about it, it is not set. Claude then says "not explicitly set, so now it is true by default". It completely ignores your CLAUDE.md.

Wait, what?

You shouldn't be shipping logic that arbitrarily redefines the behavior of the program, especially if your new logic actually ignores your own configuration or directives.

LOL https://thenewstack.io/shopify-claude-code-agentsmd/

“I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.,” Lütke posted Tuesday on X.

Hi, September 2026, meet September 2025

Truly incredible innovation.