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Experiment: Colocating agent instructions with eng docs


§ In my initial investigation of agent docs (Docs for AI agents) I expressed skepticism over the current design of agent docs. Agent providers like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and so on are steering us towards maintaining agent docs as a new docs set, separate from preexisting internal eng docs.

It worked really well. Gemini CLI closely followed the agent instructions that I provided. Specifically:

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