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new standard for agents configuration and skills

Use multiple AI agents? Cursor, Claude code, Codex and more? Writing skills files too I'll bet. Probably rules files as well. Guess what. Now your skills are in multiple different folders such as .claude/skills or .cursor/skills etc. Same for commands, rules etc. There's a new emerging standard for consolidating and sharing configuration and capabilities. It's a new folder .agents which would include skils subfolder and more. Yeah great. But sadly currently Claude Code doesn't load skills from .agents. It only reads from .claude folder. So in Claude /mynew-skill won't resolve as a slash command, from .agents and the Skill tool can't invoke it. Claude said if you want mynew-skill usable as /mynew-skill, the options are: 1. Symlink it: ln -s ../../.agents/skills/mynew-skill .claude/skills/mynew-skill — one source of truth, both tools see it. 2. Move it to .claude/skills/ and symlink the other direction for Codex. 3. Leave it and just tell me "follow .agents/s...

Guillermo says "read the code" and he's right

I love this post from Guillermo about reading the code . Thank you for saying this. I feel more tech leaders think this but may be afraid for one reason or another to say it out loud.  Contents: "If you’re not reading the code, whether explicitly or through agentic inquiry, one or more of these is true: ○ You’re a beginner ○ Software is throwaway ○ You’re prototyping ○ You have no users / revenue ○ You’re taking on debt & risk ○ Your problems are basic And btw. All of this is fine. But the reality is that models are still not at the “full autonomy” stage yet. They make rookie mistakes, they go down bad architectural paths. I just had the best model in the world add a nonsensical 700ms delay to “settle” something and it told me “you’re right, I was cargo-culting” 🤨 I am on the camp that this need will diminish more and more. Most code is indeed going to be assembly-like. But we also have the global internet and software infrastructure riding on these models and narrative...

Opus 5 is a regression

I've been using Opus 5 in Cladue code for about a month since I returned from summer holidays. Before that was using an older Opus model. Opus 5 kinda sucks and I'm "not gonna take it anymore", problems: its slow  it goes down rabbit holes a lot more often and adds code which is not required code quality is not good enough it uses up the context window quickly past safe point ~60% it feels like its optimized to generate as much tokens as possible (good for Anthropic, not good for me) for some reason it adds significant useless code comments, when I asked does it know code comments best practices? Opus 5 confirmed it did but also admitted it did not follow.  I talked with other engs and they all agree, same experiences. Most went back to 4.8 or switched to using Codex and Sol. Google "Opus is bad" yourself and you'll see others having similar issues e.g. reddit post I have made improvements to CLAUDE.md to instruct AI to: follow code comment best practice...