AI Agents Don't Follow Your Rules. Here's a...

The Problem Nobody Talks About You've set up Claude Code with a careful CLAUDE.md. Your Cursor rules are dialed in. Your AGENTS.md covers Codex. Maybe you've got copilot-instructions.md too. They all say roughly the same thing: Run npm test before committing Use TypeScript strict mode Don't use any — use unknown Follow conventional commits But they're separate files. Maintained separately. And they drift. We cloned 50 of the highest-profile open-source repos — grafana, django, vue, prisma, supab