
A New Study Says Delete Your CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md. Here's What Actually Works Instead
A recent paper just measured what CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files actually do to coding agents. The results are bad. Developer-written context files improved task success by about 4% on average, while LLM-generated context files *decreased* success by roughly 3% and both increased cost and latency by over 20%. And this isn't a fringe result it matches what most developers already suspect.