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Writing an instruction file your agent will actually follow

AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are the highest-leverage files in a repository using agents, and most of them are written wrong. Long, aspirational, full of things the agent can already see. Here is what belongs in one and what a 400-line file costs you.
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Why your coding agent forgets, and what to actually do about it

An agent has no memory between sessions and a finite window inside one. Most complaints about agent quality are really complaints about context management. Here is what fills the window, what falls out of it, and the three fixes that survive a session ending.