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Aug 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

One Spec to Rule Them All: Curing AI's Selective Deafness with SSOT

The article argues that AI coding assistants ignore rules not due to model flaws but because repositories contain multiple conflicting specification files; it proposes a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) strategy: one root-level AGENTS.md as the sole entry point, with tool-specific files like CLAUDE.md reduced to pointers, prohibitions placed upfront, and detailed docs loaded on demand.