AI Coding Tip 034 - Stop Hoarding Rules in Your AGENTS.md
Every rule you never delete outlives the reason you added it.
TL;DR: Audit your AGENTS.md and skills on a schedule, or you keep paying context rent on rules the model has outgrown.
Common Mistake ❌
Every time the AI does something wrong, you add a rule to stop it.
You never remove one.
Not even the one from two model versions ago that stopped mattering the week you wrote it.
Six months later, your AGENTS.md is a thousand lines long, half of it fixing problems last year's model doesn't have anymore.
You are still loading all of it, every session, forever, a text-file god object that knows about every mistake anyone ever made.
You treat the file like a rulebook that only grows, when the whole point of running /init in the first place was to give the AI a curated second brain, not an archive.
Problems Addressed 😔
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