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Plain answers about monorepos, breaking changes and what your AI agent actually reads.
- AI agents · Instruction files 5 min AGENTS.md vs CLAUDE.md: which one Claude Code actually reads Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as of v2.1.277, but by default only when no CLAUDE.md or CLAUDE.local.md is in the way. How it works and how to share one file.
- AI agents · Context budget 5 min How long should CLAUDE.md be? We measured 18 real instruction files Anthropic says to keep CLAUDE.md under 200 lines. We measured 18 agent instruction files from 16 open-source repos: lines, estimated tokens and what to trim.