Tweet by MrAhmadAwais

January 18, 2026

Never add file tree structure to your agents md files. It’s a bad idea. This is generally a core service of every coding agent that they can discover things on their own. File structure is the first thing that will go stale. You don’t want that. So many different strategies exist on how to discover relevant file trace and path. Trying to put a static one will just impact your agents ability to do just about anything. At the very least it will misguide your agents and waste tokens.

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MrAhmadAwais
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January 18, 2026
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