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		tomComb 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents But no, that's the opposite - here sub-context files REPLACE the ones above it rather then augmenting it - and I think that deviating in this way is kinda' dangerous in that user's might not notice this difference.

andyferris 7 months ago [–]

I think it's just poorly written. Further down:

> What if instructions conflict? > The closest AGENTS.md to the edited file wins; explicit user chat prompts override everything.

This seems appropriate for hierarchical AGENTS.md files? How would it even realize there was a conflict if it hadn't read both files?

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