Making video with coding agents

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CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md for a video project

Lesson 3 of 10 in Making video with coding agents.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 25 September 2026.

The CLAUDE.md file · Claude
OpenAI Codex Tutorial #6 - Using the AGENTS.md file · Net Ninja
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Both files are notes to the agent, written in Markdown, that load before your first message. Claude Code reads a CLAUDE.md in the folder you start in and in every folder above it, plus your personal ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and a CLAUDE.local.md you keep out of git for notes that are yours alone. Codex reads ~/.codex/AGENTS.md and then one AGENTS.md per folder, starting at the top of the git repository and walking down to where you started, with the closest file read last so its rules win. Codex stops adding files at 32 KiB. Anthropic suggests keeping each CLAUDE.md under 200 lines, because every line is loaded into every session.

~/veo-workagents.md: the rulesclaude.md: @agents.mdimportscodexclaude codeadd claude.local.md and claude code stops reading agents.md onits ownone set of rules, two agents
Who reads which file in a video project: Codex reads AGENTS.md; Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md, whose first line imports AGENTS.md, so both agents follow one set of rules.
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The house rules, pinned up where the work happens.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A Markdown file Claude Code reads at the start of every session in that folder.”

    • Contact sheet
    • SAR
    • Commit
    • CLAUDE.md
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The same idea as an open format, read by Codex and many other agents.”

    • Sandbox
    • Import
    • Dry run
    • AGENTS.md
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A line such as @AGENTS.md inside CLAUDE.md that pulls another file in.”

    • Override
    • Ceiling
    • Re-encode
    • Import

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