miniblog.

I've realised that AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md solve two distinct problems: * It tells the LLM the conventions of the project, avoiding follow-up prompts. * It precomputes a summary of the project, saving a bunch of searches at the start of a session.

Emergent behaviour of agents in early text adventure games (The Hobbit, released 1982): https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit

On the importance of 'microbrowsers', small HTTP agents that fetch web pages to be displayed in embedded card UIs: https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/