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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on

https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/
68•pszypowicz•46m ago

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nfRfqX5n•27m ago
Crazy part is: can’t tell if this intended or a bug
vaylian•17m ago
Can you think of a bug that makes sense in this case?
hgoel•17m ago
Vibe coding
thejazzman•10m ago
It is most certainly the kind of subtle bug the LLMs love to slip in and burn you in production

Not sure what y’all are thinking with these unwritten conspiracy theories that begin and end with “it’s intentional”

jpitz•16m ago
Assuming that it's intentional, what's the motivation?
kennethops•15m ago
I like to give my graces to people and the companies who are typically not trillions of dollars. Have an incredible amount of resources that many countries would like to have, with fewer of the obligations. I'm going to chalk this up to its intended
serial_dev•14m ago
Someone on the Claude Code team is probably wondering the same...
Razengan•14m ago
Claude/Anthropic has been sus from the start:

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

+ not letting users change their email, or remove their payment methods, etc.

chrisjj•26m ago
Vibe-coding at its best.
stephantul•16m ago
Did the claude writing this even read the AGENTS.md?
tjoff•15m ago
Nice find, though I'd rather read the prompt that was used to write this article. It is about ten times longer than it needs to and is quite painful to read.
sandrello•14m ago
Based on my experience with these tools so far, this seems exactly the kind of subtle but extremely severe bug that sneaks in when you start piling up layers of AI generated patches to a codebase without caring too much about the code.
hgoel•8m ago
Yep, especially with long contexts (and moreso if the last thing you were working on in the same context involved telemetry too). AI sneaks in weird conditions like this and then does the entire "You're absolutely right" thing if you're paying enough attention to catch it.
Traubenfuchs•12m ago
Issue 95690, opened 3 days ago, 500k+ engineers, a simple CLI...

AGI was reached like 2 weeks ago, latest claude 5.x models rule supreme and oftware engineering is solved?

lucfranken•11m ago
Isn't that how they just release all features? So they can do progressive roll outs and telemetry on issues with it?

Not sure if they later move the code from inside the flag check to the main code or that they keep the flag check.

But if they would keep all features behind a flag that would not make most sense as you then would have not many features without telemetry.

vorticalbox•10m ago
I use cursor and claude, its kinda annoying having to have the same skills in both so I made a ~/.agents/skills folder then ln both cursor and claude skills to point to that folder.

which works except that claude uses .skills/synced which is uses to sync changes to skills from claude servers into the skills folder.

every other agent I have used just directly syncs into .skills so it ends up duplicating skills

0m13•9m ago
can i ask claude to change these settings for me, and will it enable telemetry as implied checkpoint when i ask it to enable AGENTS.md?
rvz•8m ago
I am once again (for the third time) [0] asking you to stop using a closed-source harness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760449

teekert•6m ago
Uhm I turned off everything there is to turn of in my Pro plan, and Claude just read my agents.md with no issue? So... What telemetry am I missing? Or did they JUST updated (I updated my docker image 40 minutes ago to get Opus 5.5).
mpoteat•5m ago
Sorry folks, this is a rollout artifact, we needed a way to turn this off remotely via feature flags if it broke something, and with telemetry off you don't get those. It's already been fixed as part of v2.1.281 releasing today.

The mod is source available here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/mods/age...

Apologies again folks, this was a fully human error on my part - I should've found a better way to launch with a kill-switch.

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