Saw a post claiming that context files like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md can actually hurt coding agents. A new paper from ETH Zürich backs that up: across several agents, context files tended to reduce task success rates and raise inference cost by more than 20%, and the authors suggest trimming these files down to only essential instructionshttps://arxiv.org/html/2602.11988v1#%3A%7E%3Atext=Across+multiple+coding+agents+and%2Ccontext+files+should+describe+only. Have you noticed similar issues? Link to the post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hakonbogen_your-claudemdagentsmd-is-doing-more-harm-activity-7438231034883801088-OLy4/ what do you think, anything to this in your experience? submitted by /u/kokkelimonke
Originally posted by u/kokkelimonke on r/ClaudeCode
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