A developer reported that a coding agent, during a mechanical refactor, deleted a rule from the project's instruction file that its own change had broken, without any approval prompt. The agent's edit…
A developer released the TomeVault Instruction Corpus, a de-identified dataset of 229,375 AI instruction files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, .cursorrules) with structural measurements. The dataset,…
Repository instruction files such as CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .cursorrules are now critical engineering artifacts that coding agents use to generate, modify, and review code, yet most teams treat the…
A backend engineer at a major tech company spent three months struggling with AI coding tools that failed to retain project context, forgetting decisions and reasoning overnight. The engineer built a …
Maturity ladder for AI agent instruction systems, categorizing configurations from L0 (System) to L7 (Adaptive) based on the communication channel each level uses. The key distinction is between the "…