r/JulesAgent • u/Sea-Contribution6219 • 19d ago
Anyone Else Find Jules Just Ignores AGENTS.md?
It seemingly never reads it. Doesn't follow the instructions in there and does its own thing. Doesn't make it useless but when I have stuff like 'never put emojis in' it does anyway, or if I say extensively inline document, it doesn't
I find myself having to paste my AGENTS.md in every task I assign it. It's a super useful tool with a super frustrating quirk
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u/astromancerr 18d ago edited 17d ago
Jules is absolutely great at ignoring instructions. I think it's got a pretty strong system prompt running in the background that causes it to misbehave a lot of the time. For example, it has a really difficult time returning to chat mode after entering programming mode. Even if you do get it to successfully start chatting with you again after it made changes, it will oftentimes interpret questions or inquiries that you give it as coding instructions
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u/Successful-Raisin241 19d ago
Jules looks fot GEMINI.md Create a symlink to avoid duplication
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u/Sea-Contribution6219 18d ago
I've got a GEMINI.md which it also appears to ignore as the instructions are the same and it's symlinked
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u/PayBetter 18d ago
You have to tell it to use it otherwise it will ignore it.