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Anthropic hasn't done anything customer hostile to me.

Notable and persistent and extraordinarily petty is their refusal to read AGENTS.md files, forcing the inclusion of their branding into the source of repos directly.

That is actually pretty wild to me. Do you have any sources regarding this?

I see my GPT5.x harness seek out and read CLAUDE.md files all the time.

Like how safari and chrome have mozilla in ther userstring. History does rhyme doesnt it

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

to be clear, I don't mean that Claude refuses to read AGENTS.md files, but that Anthropic refuses to bake AGENTS.md into the harness as a first-class feature.

Claude the model by now has learned what an AGENTS file is, and itself is not petty enough to ignore it for partisan purposes, but claude-code the harness doesn't natively support it.

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