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A bold vintage screen-print illustration in cream, deep slate-blue and red of an open instruction manual, its ruled checklist page intact with red-pen checkmarks while its facing map page shatters into scattered geometric fragments.

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AGENTS.md Works as a Rulebook and Fails as a Tour

ETH Zurich tested 138 AGENTbench instances plus 300 SWE-bench Lite cases and found AGENTS.md's instructions change agent behavior, but the repo overview doesn't, while adding 20% to run cost.

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