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

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

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@kernel.org>
>> ---
>>  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@?" , ...).

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha