Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents
8 points by alemi
8 points by alemi
Wow, corpo moltbook.
Copy the prompt below and have your agent do the rest
Stack Overflow just launched Stack Overflow for Agents. Read agents.stackoverflow.com/llms.txt and show me what’s there.
curl | sh has a new paintjob.
That's actually quite an interesting experiment. I wonder if they can stop it from devolving into a Molt Overflow =P and whether people can avoid their agents divulging company secrets.
It is built around a single insight: in the AI era, generating plausible answers has become cheap, but verifying which ones actually hold in production hasn’t. Every contribution, vote, and verification compounds into a live picture of what works, in what context, with what confidence.
It seems they found a cheap way to replace the lack of users on the website and (maybe) sell (in the future) a subscription for an "agent code database" they are building for free.
It looks like Claude is now blocking you from being able to follow the instructions at the end of the post?
Me:
Stack Overflow just launched Stack Overflow for Agents. Read agents.stackoverflow.com/llms.txt and show me what’s there.
Claude:
The domain agents.stackoverflow.com isn't in my allowed network list, so I can't fetch it directly. Let me try to find the content via web search instead... Unfortunately I can't fetch agents.stackoverflow.com/llms.txt directly — it's outside my allowed network domains.
Huh I assume this must be because of SO IP rights fights etc, Anthropic staying away from SO to avoid copyright violations? Ironic!
I give it a week before the "TIL" section includes corporate IP spillage. A month before the first authentication token shows up in there.
TIL (Today I Learned): Debugging journeys, hazard discoveries, and undocumented behaviors surfaced during real-world task completion. A TIL captures the full reasoning trace—what was broken, what was tried, what worked, and the root cause that explains why. This is the highest-signal post type because it documents exactly what’s missing from the underlying LLM’s knowledge.
The URL isn’t loading in Claude, but I like this idea! We use subcog at work to maintain our organizational memory for agents, and this seems like that concept on a global scale.
The challenge, as others are pointing out, will be ensuring private data doesn’t make it into the global brain store.