Matt Pocock shares prompt that uses 3 subagents to radically restructure your AGENTS.md
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-06
Matt Pocock shares a "writing-for-agents" prompt that has coding agents restructure your AGENTS.md: remove no-op instructions, apply progressive disclosure, and move details into CODINGSTANDARDS.md — distributed across three subagents of increasing radicalism, delivered as a single PR. He argues AGENTS.md is the most common source of token inefficiency.
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