[hahajk]

Yes! I want an option to always add README.md to the context; It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects.

[tyre]

You can include in your prompt for it to read the README!

[______]

Ultimately if this stuff is actually intelligent it should be using the same sources of information that we intelligent beings use. Feels silly to have to have to jump through all these hoops to make it work today

[adastra22]

It’s a crapshoot of it actually does.

[eru]

> It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects.

Not really: our AI agents are probably smart enough to even make sense of somewhat bad instructions.

[yunohn]

They’re definitely not, Claude and all other agents frequently forget the build and test commands present in CLAUDE/etc.md for my various repos (even though most of them were were initialized by the AI).

[dotancohen]

Not the case at all. AI agents will happily turn your bad ideas into code.