My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger
My experience is that what you're suggesting isn't a perfect solution.
I see this obstinance as an intent signal and one of the smaller bullet points I have for avoiding Ant
For a 10 byte symlink, that costs one billionth of a euro.
This is like worrying about the money you lose when part of a glass of tap water evaporates.