DAIR.AI(@dair_ai):If you maintain an AGENTS.md or a CLAUDE.md, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Researchers traced 94K development events across 557 agentic coding sessions, plus 690K file-level change records from 33K agentic pull requests. Instruction files and working notes account for 60.5% of everything agents read. Classical technical docs get 10.6%. API references get 1.3%. Reading docs is associated with less immediate testing, at an adjusted odds ratio of 0.39. And consultation is self-initiated 70.2% of the time, against 7.5% driven by a failure. In multi-commit agentic pull requests, code gets touched first 4.7x more often. Paper: https://t.co/alrihmMkQd Track more trending AI papers in our academy:

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If you maintain an AGENTS.md or a CLAUDE.md, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) Researchers traced 94K development events across 557 agentic coding sessions, plus 690K file-level change records from 33K agentic pull requests. Instruction files and working notes account for 60.5% of everything agents read. Classical technical docs get 10.6%. API references get 1.3%. Reading docs is associated with less immediate testing, at an adjusted odds ratio of 0.39. And consultation is self-initiated 70.2% of the time, against 7.5% driven by a failure. In multi-commit agentic pull requests, code gets touched first 4.7x more often. Paper: Track more trending AI papers in our academy: