This is where I landed when a recent(ish) change broke symlinking for rules files. I didn’t like how hacky it was a first, but now I’m glad I did it. The same hook drives specific rules the non-Claudes get per repo.
I honestly hate .agents it's a big XDGBDS offender. Almost every plugin / lazy platform harness tries to use that dir too so I have to do a bunch of hacks to keep my $HOME clean. Also everyone tries to use a .claude .gemini .codex etc. Annoying that all these tools just completely ignore these things, it's literally like litterers you know it'd be terrible if every tool did this, but you still do it anyway
They have AGI, but they don't have $20 of token budget to add a so basic functionality.
Seriously, it’s unbelievable. Shows a serious lack of either understanding or empathy for how people use their product.
They just care much more about their user's data.
They probably have an explicit instruction in their own CLAUDE.md to not implement that support.
Its the only explanation. I mean, they are not living under a rock...
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If not a system prompt telling it not to read those files unless explicitly told to.
Artificial General Intransigence
A post-checkout git hook can handle this unfortunate situation.
This is where I landed when a recent(ish) change broke symlinking for rules files. I didn’t like how hacky it was a first, but now I’m glad I did it. The same hook drives specific rules the non-Claudes get per repo.
Won’t you have to do it recursively for all child directories?
we shouldn't have to do this on a per-repo basis, Ant can choose to be a reasonable member of the ecosystem or not
Sure, but I have work to do. ;)
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Don't worry, it's on the roadmap for Q4 2029.
I honestly hate .agents it's a big XDGBDS offender. Almost every plugin / lazy platform harness tries to use that dir too so I have to do a bunch of hacks to keep my $HOME clean. Also everyone tries to use a .claude .gemini .codex etc. Annoying that all these tools just completely ignore these things, it's literally like litterers you know it'd be terrible if every tool did this, but you still do it anyway