Claude Keeps Ignoring My AGENTS.md, and I Think I Know Why
In July I asked an agent to push a build of my personal assistant app to my phone. Routine task. I do it most days. It built the release APK, ran flutter install , and my habits, journal, and health logs were gone. Not corrupted, not partially migrated. Gone. flutter install uninstalls the app first when it feels like it, and everything my assistant had learned about me lived in app-private storage with no cloud copy I could count on. The part that still bothers me is not that it happened. It is that the instruction telling it not to do this was already sitting in the repository, in the file the agent claims to read. The Rule Was Already There, in Capital Letters After the first time this happened, I did the obvious thing. I wrote the rule down. The commit is still in my history, and the message reads like an incident report because that is what it was: flutter install uninstalled the app before reinstalling on a real device, wiping local user data (habits, journal, health log...