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Does Claude Code Read Your AGENTS.md? We Checked 283 Repos — in 161 It Still Reads CLAUDE.md.

Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md only when no CLAUDE.md counts. We checked 815 top repos: 283 ship an AGENTS.md and 161 still get CLAUDE.md read instead.

Does Claude Code Read Your AGENTS.md? We Checked 283 Repos — in 161 It Still Reads CLAUDE.md.

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Originally published by Towards AI on Sep 30, 2026.

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