We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. You can toggle this behavior in /config.

At Anthropic, Claude now writes 80% of our code. Engineers ship 8x more code per quarter. Side effect: Tests grew 10x. CI jobs up 25x in 6 months. Here's what helped us scale:

The most underrated artifact in AI engineering is a folder of markdown files. Before any agent touches code on a brownfield engagement, the team builds a knowledge graph: every module, dependency, data flow, and domain term documented. The agent reads this context before writing a single line. Every time. On one of our logistics clients, building the knowledge graph took 4 days. It saved roughly 4 months. The agent stopped generating code that violated naming conventions. Stopped importing deprecated modules. Stopped wiring services through patterns the team abandoned six months earlier. At another healthcare client, the same knowledge graph served double duty. AI agents used it for code generation context. Human engineers used it as onboarding documentation. I mean, most teams skip this because it feels like overhead. Four days of documentation before any code ships feels slow. But the teams that skip it spend those same four days spread across four months of rework, reviewing PRs that look right and break something upstream. We've seen this at @LimestoneHQ on dozens of engagements. The knowledge graph is the scaffolding everything else stands on.

A buttload of developers are going through a tough time right now. Their identity has always been tied to their ability to write code, so now they feel threatened by this new era where *anyone* can write code. If they don't write code anymore, who are they? I'm very pragmatic, and yet I've struggled with this too, so I totally understand how tough it must be for others. You'll hear from these people everywhere. They are the ones fighting with everything they've got against AI-generated code. But they must understand this is an uphill battle. Manually writing code is destined to disappear. There's no going back.

my favorite way to explain people herdr is to just open a new workspace, launch an agent and tell it to: read `herdr --skill` then split 10 other panels that make my computer look like some scifi hacker terminal from the movies

Jmail has crossed 450M pageviews, and our Vercel bill has exploded, even after tons of cache mitigation. Many kind people chipped in to cover the bill, but it’s not sustainable. What are solid, cheaper alternatives?