A morning paper for product designers
Today's thread

Agent tooling is standardizing faster than agent judgment

Thariq Shihipar's AGENTS.md addition and Vercel's WebMCP release both standardize how agents connect to projects, while the harness study argues the real performance gains come from planning and context design, not the connectors themselves. The interoperability layer for AI agents is getting solved quietly while the harder question of how to structure their reasoning stays open, so wiring things up will feel easy but building agents that are actually good will not.

Reads9 picks · 8 min
01Simon Willison44 d

Claude Code adds AGENTS.md support for customizing agent behavior

You can now centralize agent instructions in a shared AGENTS.md format instead of maintaining separate CLAUDE.md files per tool, which matters as you juggle multiple AI coding tools across projects.

Read on simonwillison.net
Try today

Add an AGENTS.md to one active project and compare how Claude Code behaves against your existing CLAUDE.md setup.

← All threads