{"version":"2.1.280","anchor":"agentsmd-as-instructions-plugin-gate-simplified-still-off","canonical_anchor":"agentsmd-as-instructions-plugin-gate-simplified-still-off","heading":"AGENTS.md-as-instructions plugin gate simplified, still off by default","tier":"use","area":"AGENTS.md","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.280\/e\/agentsmd-as-instructions-plugin-gate-simplified-still-off","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.280","markdown":"### AGENTS.md-as-instructions plugin gate simplified, still off by default\n\nThe availability check for the built-in AGENTS.md plugin was simplified, but it's still off by default\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code includes a built-in plugin called `agents-md` that, when active, loads a project's `AGENTS.md` file and uses it as instructions (the same role `CLAUDE.md` normally plays). The internal check that decides whether this plugin is available has been simplified: it used to test an extra condition before checking anything else, and now it just checks the remote flag `tengu_agents_md_mod`, falling back to the plugin's own default-on setting if that flag isn't present.\n\nThis is an internal cleanup to how the plugin decides whether it can turn on, not a change to what the plugin does once it's active.\n\n**Why**\n\nSimplifying this check makes the plugin's availability easier to reason about and reduces the chance of an outdated precondition blocking it unnecessarily. Whether it actually turns on for a given account still depends on the `tengu_agents_md_mod` flag, which is controlled server-side.\n\n- Flag `tengu_agents_md_mod`: Off by default, switched on for this account (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.280; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, compiled default: off) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: AGENTS.md\n- Names: `AGENTS.md`, `tengu_agents_md_mod`\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5"}