Re: [PATCH 0/2] agents: add portable agent skills and Fixes attribution

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, what I meant to say is that the spec seems to require markdown as it's
>> preferred format. We can experiment with other options, but then the risk is
>> that we'll break some tools.
>
> Ah, got it, thanks! Yeah, at the very least the `SKILL.md` main file
> should most likely be all Markdown inside (and of course the
> filename).
>
> Now, if we go with `agents/` instead of `Documentation/`, then I would
> personally prefer Markdown for the other files in the same folder like
> the `guide.rst`, but that is just my bias, and it has a small
> disadvantage: if we happen to move things between `Doc/` and
> `agents/`, then it is a bit painful to reformat.

For all that we hear about how smart these tools are, are they really
incapable of dealing with two only slightly different markup formats?  I
would really hate to bring in a separate format for this stuff...

jon