Re: [PATCH 1/2] agents: add infrastructure for agent resources

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 06:35:10AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 12:27:33PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 06:54:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > Add agents/ as a home for skills, prompts, and other resources for coding
> > > assistants. Describe the skill layout and how to read the procedures in
> > > coding-assistants.rst, and add a MAINTAINERS entry covering agents/.
> > > 
> > > Assisted-by: LLM
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >  MAINTAINERS                                 |  6 ++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> > > index 051f0d819f68e..3288b32e993f5 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> > > @@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ For guidelines on content generated by AI coding assistants see:
> > > 
> > >  * Documentation/process/generated-content.rst
> > > 
> > > +Agent resources
> > > +===============
> > > +
> > > +The ``agents/`` directory holds skills, prompts, and other resources for
> > > +coding assistants.
> > > +
> > > +Skills live under ``agents/skills/<name>/``, with a ``SKILL.md`` entry point
> > > +in the `Agent Skills format
> > > +<https://agentskills.io/specification>`_. Read the relevant resource
> > > +directly from its repository path. Links within a skill are relative to
> > > +that skill's directory.
> > 
> > Will this "solve" the issue where AGENTS.md is not present and so some
> > do not actually read this file?  Or is that a separate issue that will
> > be resolved with the symlink patch?
> 
> It's a separate issue that will be resolved with the symlink patch.
> 
> This patch will only allow us to add agent skills in-tree ("how do I add the
> correct Fixes: tag?" , "Do I need to tag this for stable@?" , ...).

That's a lot of "only", but sounds good, this should help out a lot,
thanks.

greg k-h