Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when CLAUDE.md is missing
Claude Code 2.1.277 now falls back to AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is in the folder, aligning with OpenAI’s agent-instructions format used by Codex and 60k+ repos. Toggle it with /config.
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