Claude Code to add AGENTS.md support

On October 10, 2026, InfoQ Chinese reported that Thariq Shihipar, a core member of the Anthropic Claude Code team, confirmed on the Latent Space podcast that Claude Code will support the AGENTS.md standard, which has already been adopted by a large number of projects and coding agents. The report notes that about a month earlier, Claude Code had drawn criticism for refusing to support AGENTS.md, and that Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke had issued a public warning about it. Anthropic's position at the time was that different models need different context and instructions, while developers argued this would force teams to maintain a separate configuration for every model.

On the same podcast, Shihipar said that as models grow stronger, static instruction files such as CLAUDE.md may eventually no longer be needed. He suggested that new projects could skip writing one at first and only add rules after the same failure pattern shows up repeatedly. The episode was hosted by swyx and Vibhu, and the discussion began with the evolving interface of Claude Code, covering Artifacts, Claude Tag, Claude Mods, and agents capable of modifying their own harness, before moving on to agent safety and Anthropic's "Pacing the Frontier" idea.

The report also mentions that the rapid spread of Claude Code, agents rewriting their own harness, cross-team collaboration, and running both in the cloud and locally are changing how software is built. The matter currently rests at the team member's confirmation that AGENTS.md support is coming, with no specific date or version given.