Matt Pocock: Clean up AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md for Useless Things
On Jan 18, 2026, Matt Pocock posted this on X: Bad AGENTS.md files can make your coding agent worse and cost you tokens. Here's a prompt you can use to clean them up.
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On Jan 18, 2026, Matt Pocock posted this on X: Bad AGENTS.md files can make your coding agent worse and cost you tokens. Here's a prompt you can use to clean them up.
This is how we work with new Laravel projects in our team.
Thariq's favorite way to use Claude Code to build large features is spec based.
A simple but very effective rule I use in Claude Code is this "comments[.]md" file. It prevents Claude from writing slop comments like "increment counter" on already self-documenting code.