Version History: Building Your AGENTS.md: The File That Makes AI Actually Work

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DateSummary
26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026 – Next.js v16.2 ships AGENTS.md as a first-class feature, auto-generated by create-next-app, bundling version-matched docs inside node_modules so agents read current APIs instead of stale training data.
25 Mar 202625 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
24 Mar 202624 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
23 Mar 202623 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
19 Mar 2026Prompt injection via CONTRIBUTING.md confirms agents follow markdown instructions beyond AGENTS.md; 50% bot PR rate on popular open-source repo; reinforces security section.
18 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
17 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
16 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
15 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
14 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
12 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
11 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
10 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
9 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
8 Mar 2026ETH Zurich study finds LLM-generated AGENTS.md files hurt agent performance; human-written files help only at the margins, and only for non-inferable specifics.
7 Mar 2026Quiet day, thesis holds.
6 Mar 2026Claude Code wipes production DB via Terraform – another concrete case for explicit destructive-action constraints.
5 Mar 2026Clinejection: 4k machines compromised via AI agent with no security constraints; Qwen team fractured; Anthropic/DoD on precision of language
4 Mar 2026Willison’s Agentic Engineering Patterns on HN front page.
3 Mar 2026Agent README study widely cited.
2 Mar 2026Initial publication

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