Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] AGENTS.md and associated skills

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 07, 2026 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 7/5/26 10:59, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 May 2026 at 18:03, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not withstanding the current contributor policy there are a number of
> > > areas that AI agents could be helpful for. This series introduces an
> > > AGENTS.md file which is the basic guide to the source tree and a
> > > number of "skills". Skills are like scripts except far less clearly
> > > defined. However I have found the issue triage skill quite useful for
> > > off-loading the drudgery of going through stuff by hand. I've also
> > > used the issue helper to automate the task of starting a debug session
> > > by pulling in test cases from the tracker.
> > > 
> > > These originally where a set of skills for ECA (eca.dev) but I've
> > > ported them across to the agent agnostic .agents directory. There are
> > > still some cases where the ECA heritage shows through though
> > > (specifically the code explorer skill could be better).
> > > 
> > > I'm not suggesting this is ready for up-streaming but I'm posting the
> > > collected set for comment and I'd be interested how well these hold up
> > > across different agentic systems.
> > 
> > I guess my overall comment on this is some mix of:
> >   * how much of this is generically useful as opposed to
> >     stuff that's personally helpful to you and should remain
> >     part of your local setup / preferences?
> >   * how much do we want to put into git to start with?
> 
> Parts could be shared under a 'qemu' folder within mainstream
> review-prompts project:
> 
>  https://github.com/masoncl/review-prompts

IMHO it is more likely to stay updated and relevant if it is maintained
directly in qemu.git where it is visible to our manitainers.

With regards,
Daniel
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