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Stale Instruction Files Override the Code in Coding Agents: A One-Sentence Fix

Xu, Xiaonan et al.
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Purpose: Coding agents follow a project's instruction file, such as CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, even when it disagrees with the existing code and even when they notice the disagreement. We measure this behaviour and test whether one sentence in the user's own instruction file makes agents follow the cod
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