Support for AGENTS.md and .agents/skills/, the community has been asking since August 2025

# Support for AGENTS.md and .agents/skills/, the community has been asking since August 2025 ## Preflight Checklist - [x] I have searched existing requests and this feature has been requested **multiple times** with **zero official response** - [x] This is a single feature request ## Problem Statement This has been raised repeatedly by the community for **over 7 months** with no acknowledgment from the Anthropic team: - #5659, Configurable Agent Definition File Path (Aug 2025, closed by bot) - #6235, Support AGENTS.md (Aug 2025, **3,020 upvotes, 224 comments, still open, zero team response**) - #14474, Will Claude Code support AGENTS.md in the future? (Dec 2025, auto-closed as duplicate) - #20820, Reserve skills/ for user-managed skills (Jan 2026, auto-closed for inactivity) - #22022, Claude Code ignores AGENTS.md rules (Jan 2026, auto-closed as duplicate) - #25882, Auto-load ~/.claude/AGENTS.md (Feb 2026, marked stale) **Not a single one has received a response from anyone at Anthropic.** The main issue (#6235) has over three thousand upvotes and two hundred comments from the community, and the only responses are from a bot closing duplicates. 7 months. 3,020 upvotes. Zero acknowledgment. As paying customers (Claude Pro/Max subscribers), this is frankly unacceptable. We're not asking for something obscure or unreasonable. We're asking Claude Code to support the standards that the rest of the industry has already adopted. The fact that this keeps getting raised and kee

Posted by kvnwolf on Mar 5, 2026, 9:26 AM

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