
CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: What Coding Agents Read
How Claude Code and Codex load project instruction files, what belongs in them, and a worked AGENTS.md for a small Next.js repo.
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A path from installing a terminal coding agent to running it headless in CI, built on Claude Code and Codex docs. Read it in order the first time: each stage assumes the habits from the one before.
Install both CLIs, sign in, and fix one failing test in a scratch repo you can check with a single command.
How each tool loads its instruction file, one file that serves both, and a worked AGENTS.md for a Next.js app.
When to plan before editing, and how to cut a feature into tasks that each end in a check.
Read an agent's diff in the order that finds risk first, with a checklist to copy.
Branches, commits, worktrees, and PRs with an agent, and the git actions that stay with a human.
Turn the rules an agent keeps forgetting into checks that run every time.
Split research and review into separate contexts, and run sessions side by side without collisions.
Connect an agent to context that lives outside the repo, and decide which servers earn a place.
Package a workflow you repeat into instructions the agent loads only when it needs them.
Run an agent without a human in the loop, in scripts and CI, with permissions to match.
The three tools compared on the same terms once you know how each one works.
A terminal agent against an in-editor assistant, and which work each one suits.

How Claude Code and Codex load project instruction files, what belongs in them, and a worked AGENTS.md for a small Next.js repo.
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Branches, commits, worktrees and pull requests with a coding agent, plus the git actions an agent should never take without you.
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Run Claude Code and Codex non-interactively and in GitHub Actions: flags, the GitHub app, Codex cloud, secrets, and a worked workflow.
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How Claude Code and Codex hooks work, the settings.json shape, and a worked hook that runs your checks before the agent commits.
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Install Claude Code and Codex, sign in, give each the same broken test to fix in a practice project, and check what it changed before you keep it.
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Add an MCP server to Claude Code and Codex, using GitHub's official server in read-only mode as the example, and decide what the agent may do.
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When to make a coding agent plan before it edits, how plan mode works in Claude Code and Codex, and how to cut a feature into small checkable tasks.
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Read an agent's change in the right order: tests, deletions, dependencies and config first. A review checklist for Claude Code and Codex.
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Write one SKILL.md that works in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, and learn when a skill beats another line in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md.
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Subagents, worktrees, and parallel lanes in Claude Code and Codex: how to split work so files don't collide, and what to review.
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Codex, Claude Code and Cursor compared from their docs: how each would handle one disclosed task, their guardrails, and plan prices checked September 2026.
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Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot: a terminal agent against an editor assistant, with current models, plan prices checked September 27, 2026, and who should pay.
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Build an n8n workflow that reads new Gmail, asks a small OpenAI model for JSON, and appends each result to a Google Sheet. No automation experience needed.
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n8n vs Zapier with prices checked September 27, 2026: how each one bills, the math at four volumes, the AI features, and who should pick which.
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