A dead path in AGENTS.md is worse than no AGENTS.md #9
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I keep hitting the same failure: an agent follows a backtick path in AGENTS.md, the file is gone, and then it either stops or invents a replacement.
Codex's own AGENTS.md still points at
codex-rs/codex-mcp/src/mcp_connection_manager.rs. The file on main isconnection_manager.rs. One stale line. Agents treat it as a lookup.That is why agentsmd has a dead-path rule. Not because the wording is pretty. Because a missing file in the instruction set is a silent wrong turn.
If you have a real example of an agent following a path that no longer exists, I want it. One path is enough.
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