--- title: "AGENTS.md — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # AGENTS.md (🤖 Agents) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › AGENTS.md AGENTS.md is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, about the same as 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. First seen on DEV Community (dev.to) · Sep 14 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 0.2 / 100 · −1.1 in 1 day · +0.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 9 on Sep 24, 2026 - **Category:** 🤖 Agents - **Official site:** [agents.md](https://agents.md) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 23 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 138 - **Share of voice:** 0.3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 2 | 0.5 | 2× | no | 100% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | items | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 1 | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 1 | 1× | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947) — Hacker News (blog.szypowi.cz) · Sep 23 · score 485 · 284 comments 2. [Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814947) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (blog.szypowi.cz) · Sep 23 · score 480 · 282 comments 3. [What have they done to Sol???](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wov4xb/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 24 · score 100 · 68 comments 4. [Rust wgpu now has a .agents/skills, a .claude/skills, an AGENTS.md, and a CLAUDE.md. Increasingly wondering if my goal of living in a way that I never benefit from the actions of generative AI users…](https://mastodon.social/@mcc/117338022446987611) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 26 · score 138 · 11 comments 5. [What can you build with Jev](https://www.bensbites.com/p/what-can-you-build-with-jev) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Ben's Bites) · Sep 22 · score 73 · 0 comments 6. [Put secrets and path rules in Cursor .mdc files, not AGENTS.md](https://dev.to/vildandenai/put-secrets-and-path-rules-in-cursor-mdc-files-not-agentsmd-38j7) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 25 · score 0 · 1 comment 7. [Project child cloud agents do not share a prompt-cache prefix](https://forum.cursor.com/t/project-child-cloud-agents-do-not-share-a-prompt-cache-prefix/173200) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 28 · score 0 · 1 comment 8. [Introducing KoboldCpp Agent \(and a plea for help\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wqlyp8/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 26 · score 159 · 32 comments 9. [I ran DeepSeek through 7 harnesses. Here's how each one handled it, and what it actually cost.](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1wp5r06/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Sep 24 · score 13 · 47 comments 10. [Hod do you get codex to explain things better?](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wmrp31/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 21 · score 7 · 32 comments 11. [Claude Code now supports AGENTS.md Natively - Here's how it actually works](https://dev.to/valyuai/claude-code-now-supports-agentsmd-natively-heres-how-it-actually-works-5nl) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#claude) · Sep 22 · score 1 · 0 comments 12. [Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md. Here's what researcher testing on that standard has already found.](https://dev.to/humanbound_ai/claude-code-now-reads-agentsmd-heres-what-researcher-testing-on-that-standard-has-already-found-158a) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Sep 22 · score 1 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 117 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 79% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 67% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 31% of its stories - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 26% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 6.8% of its stories - [Identity & auth](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth.md) — 2.6% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (105 stories), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) (79 stories), [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) (56 stories), [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) (50 stories), [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) (24 stories), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) (15 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 8.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 4.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 8.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open AGENTS.md in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=agents_md) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)