Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 08:59:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 05:34:50PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> +A stable tag in the sign-off area asks the stable team to backport a commit to
>> +the stable and longterm trees once it is merged in mainline. The tag syntax is
>> +described in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. Deciding on a tag
>> +requires knowing whether the change is stable material, which released kernels
>> +contain the bug, and whether the fix applies to them.
>
>And I really don't like this redundancy either. The skill should be
>strictly as short as it can possibly be and then aim at the _existing_
>documentation. If agents are getting something wrong after reading
>Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst, then we need to add the
>changes _there_, not in a parallel agent-only file. I would want to see
>all these skills designed to give the framework needed by the agent to
>find the _existing_ documentation.

w.r.t to your comments on verbosity/duplication on a few of the patches: I'll
try and reduce it, and will run the local test rig I have for this. I'll see
how we can minimize them.

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Thanks,
Sasha