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AGENTS.md size and context loading concerns

Cluster 50165 · agent. Data as of

3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

1open issue
2open PRs
5items grouped
Known?
Yes. 5 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
1 issue and 2 PRs.

Multiple issues and PRs address AGENTS.md being too large (~70KB) and being loaded into sessions where it is not relevant, wasting tokens or triggering truncation. Proposed approaches include splitting contributor-only content into a separate file and restricting which sessions load the file.

Open issues1

  • Issue#52821AGENTS.md (70K chars) is loaded into every session context — extract contributor-only sections

Open PRs2

  • PR#57554docs: split contributor guidance from AGENTS
  • PR#92106fix(context): keep repository instructions within startup budget

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: closed without comment 1

  • #77461 fix(context): keep repository instructions within loader budgets · closed without comment
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#50165[Discussion] Shipped AGENTS.md at ~70KB triggers context_file_max_chars truncation warnings
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.54: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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