Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents? (opens in new tab)  📐Formal Methods  8 articles covering this post

arXiv:2602.11988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A widespread practice in software development is to tailor coding agents to repositories using context files, such as AGENTS.md, by either manually or automatically generating them. Although this practice is strongly encouraged by agent developers, there is currently no rigorous investigation into whether such context files are actually effective for real-world tasks. In this work, we study this question and evaluate coding agents' task compl...