Confident system proposed for persistent AGENTS.md decisions

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The author argues that writing increasingly detailed instruction files like AGENTS.md creates false confidence while failing to improve agent independence or prevent recurring hand-off questions. Analyzing local coding logs, the author found that a significant portion of agent interactions still end by handing decisions back to the human. The piece proposes the conceptual system 'Confident' to preserve cross-session context and decision history across different AI tools. Open article →