Its indicative of a pattern of behavior where they want to upsell you into their ecosystem and keep you there.
They don't even allow alternative harnesses on their subscription model. (But they do allow a agent-sdk that can pretend to be a generic compatible endpoint the alternative harnesses can use).
If you like your stuff overengineered, gated, and over-priced then by all means.
Its not even wrong from Anthropic because it's the path to most profit.
I'll take the opinion of people who have strong opinions about mild inconveniences.
Between my goals and Anthropic's bottom line, i want my goal to win out without needless inconveniences.
Don’t forget the initial context, my point was that saying Anthropic is a disgrace for not supporting AGENTS.md was an overreaction, because it’s solved with a symlink.
I don’t disagree with anything you say, I just don’t think AGENTS.md ever was a big deal, just a small annoyance
I think the problem is deeper. I mean, calling it claude.md in the first place is weird, and not adopting agents.md causes the ecosystem to fracture.
Sometimes, Anthropic has pushed standards (MCP, Skills), and that is great, but other times they have explicitly built incompatibilities. With the Plug-in marketplaces, it is quite similar.
