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Does whispering to agents in docs help?


I’m seeing more instances of docs and README files addressing agents directly, as in “Hey, if you’re an agent, follow these instructions”. In some cases, those instructions are visible to human readers as well, which makes for a deeply awkward experience, the reading equivalent of getting a robotic kick in the butt. Is this whistling to machines helpful? I ran some experiments to find out.

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