https://blog.szypowi.cz/tags/privacy/Recent content in Privacy on blog.szypowi.czHugoen-usWed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/<p>Claude Code 2.1.277 announced support for <code>AGENTS.md</code>. In a project with no <code>CLAUDE.md</code>, it is supposed to read <code>AGENTS.md</code> instead. I keep telemetry off in my shell, and in my repos the file never loaded. <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/95690">Issue #95690</a> explains why, and I added <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/95690#issuecomment-5791716755">my own measurements</a> to it. This post collects them in one place.</p> <h2 id="where-the-gate-is">Where the gate is</h2> <p>The loader ships as a built-in plugin called <code>agents-md</code>. Its registration in the 2.1.280 bundle looks like this:</p>