Re: AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md Are Concessions to Proprietary Services, Not Defenses Against Them

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> I have 450 LLMs on my computer as I run them and have experience
>> with them. Do you? Do you think that all of the development is done
>> exclusively over those few software packages that use AGENTS.md or
>> CLAUDE.md? It is not.
>
> A partial solution is still an improvement, especially if it affects
> the most popular and frequent user choices.

I think this is the key point. The goal is not to stop advanced or
malicious users from submitting LLM-assisted code, regardless of what
GNU policy says. That is fundamentally impossible, since the developer
controls his or her own environment and can simply remove AGENTS.md (and
strip any Assisted-By tags by using git manually). Rather, the goal is
to guide newcomers so they do not waste everyone's time (and tokens aka
energy) trying to submit drive-by patches that would be rejected.