DevOps / SRE / Platform · 25.08.2026, 19:47 UTC
Shopify’s CEO threatened to ban Claude Code. Anthropic had already closed the feature request.
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| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | The New Stack ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 25.08.2026 UTC |
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Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is considering banning Claude Code at the company, but not because he thinks Anthropic’s coding agent isn’t good. The problem, he says, is a Markdown file.
“I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.,” Lütke posted Tuesday on X.
“I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.”
And while this might sound like a small disagreement over how an AI coding tool is configured, at a company the size of Shopify, even a small difference can quickly become a much bigger issue.
Shopify has thousands of developers working in a massive monorepo, and because they don’t all use the same AI coding tools, each agent needs to pick up the right instructions for whatever part of the codebase it happens to be working in. If one coding agent doesn’t pick up the same instructions as the others, developers can end up with agents operating under different rules.
“Agents and Claude files are recursively applied through the tree,” Lütke wrote in a follow-up post. “With thousands of [developers] in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy.”
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.— tobi lutke (@tobi) …