AI IntelligenceAug 23, 2026Practical Tip
Article
I was so frustrated with Claude's writing but I wondered, what if it's about HOW our agents.md was written instead of WHAT was written...
And I tested it.
Frontier EditorialSource: Reddit r/ClaudeAI
01
Source Brief
I was so frustrated with Claude's writing but I wondered, what if it's about HOW our agents.md was written instead of WHAT was written... and I tested it.
02
Practical Tip
An r/ClaudeAI user says rewriting agents.md rule formatting, not adding more style rules, fixed Claude's persistently bad writing. The author ran the comparison through OpenRouter to control for environment effects and concluded that how rules are written matters more than what they say.
03