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

Yeah, you may not, but people do use. So, the conversation is not=20
about
catering to your taste in tools, but to help guide users that may=20
use
LLMs for generating code. Having AGENTS.md (or even CLAUDE.md) is=20
not a
way to make the project "compatible" to proprietary services but=20
help
the project guide those incoming users that don't have time to=20
read the
entire thread in this mailing list.

On mar, ago 04 2026, Jean Louis wrote:

> On August 4, 2026 1:02:16 PM GMT+03:00, Yuri Khan=20
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 4:31=E2=80=AFPM Jean Louis <[email protected]>=20
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Nevertheless you can prove the point if you find any standard=20
>>> on using agents.md and if such standard isn't there who is it=20
>>> them benefiting?
>>
>>https://agents.md/
>>
>>It is an emerging convention and it benefits teams where=20
>>contributors
>>do not have to agree on a single harness.
>
> I didn't know it until now. Yet as something invented by OpenAI=20
> and Google I don't want to adopt it personally.
>
> Technically we know it cannot prevent LLM generated code.
>
>
>>Something that interfaces with an LLM but is not a harness is=20
>>just a
>>chat UI. One could, in principle, manually paste the contents of=20
>>a
>>file into a chat UI, give an instruction, get text back, and=20
>>copy that
>>text back into the file. That would be code generation without a
>>harness. People do not, in general, do that.
>
> I am surprised really.
>
> I know now you use those harnesses but you should know I don't=20
> use it. And you can see Emacs packages if they have some=20
> harnesses...
>
> I just can't agree on that how users will use harnesses and how=20
> that
> file benefits as it's contradictory to what I see and know from=20
> my
> experience and from Emacs packages and various LLM software=20
> suitable
> to inspect and change files by using LLM.
>
> I am using llama.cpp and Cherry Studio and Emacs packages and=20
> functions. No harnesses there found.
>
>
> Jean

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