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AGENTS.md Reduces Runtime by 28.64% — First Empirical Study
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Across 10 repos and 124 PRs, AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files reduced median runtime by 28.64% and output token consumption by 16.58% while maintaining comparable task completion. Repository-level context files are a free performance boost. arXiv 2601.20404
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