Prosper Otemuyiwa

Day 2 of 30 Days of Search for AI Agents. I want a research agent to give me something I can check. For each finding, I should be able to open the original document and decide whether it supports the statement. A bibliography at the bottom leaves too much detective work to the reader. Quick Summary: To build an AI research agent with citations, give it a scoped question, retrieve evidence, and keep each finding attached to its supporting sources.

I have been doing open-source for 10 years now. From side projects to small and popular libraries and to hackathon projects. That's why I when I saw the DEV's Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge. I knew I had to jump on it and share some ideas with what you can build with Valyu as part of your toolkit for building an awesome project! You have until October 5 to make it useful to somebody you actually know, with open-source AI at its core. I'd start with a favor you already do for people.

Quick answer: As of 4 days ago, September 18, Claude Code natively reads AGENTS.md, the open, cross-tool standard for AI coding agent instructions. By default it's a fallback, not a merge: Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only in a project that has no CLAUDE.md in the working directory or any parent directory. If a CLAUDE.md exists anywhere in that chain, Claude Code reads that instead and ignores AGENTS.md.