aws
Feature: Read AGENTS.md on project start
We are using several different AI tools. Most of these seem to be converging to using AGENTS.md in the project folder for agent instructions and project specific tools, conventions and hints.
It would be great if Amazon Q would read this when opening a project. Creating AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and ~/.amazonq/rules/* all for the same purpose is quite messy.
I worked around this by creating:
~/.aws/amazonq/cli-agents/default.json
Copy pasting the default agent from: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/blob/main/docs/default-agent-behavior.md#3-built-in-default-agent
and then adding the AGENTS.md file (and some other things while I was at it).
Still would be much more convenient if Q Chat would read it by default.
This is feeling fairly standard at this point - Codex, Cursor, RooCode etc. all support this.
