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Had a silly exchange with Codex: I had an AGENTS.md file in a directory that was a symlink to an already-created CLAUDE.md. On my first prompt to Codex, it decided to point to me that my AGENTS.md specifically calls out directions to Claude, and that it would generously re-interpret them as directions to itself, and that maybe I should fix my AGENTS.md to reference the correct agent.

Very sassy, Codex!

That’s pretty funny.

Also: did it suggest instructions for the “correct” agent, or an ambiguous agent?

One has marketing implications, the other one is generally decent advice.

When I setup a global agents.md/claude.md for its communication style, I got the following response during the next session:

> The function you added is load-bear-very important [...]

I never felt this mocked by a computer.

But if you said that you were migrating from another platform to Claude, my guess is that it would have happily found and converted AGENTS.md