Re: [RFC 1/2] AI: Add unified AI coding assistant configuration

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:15:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:27:50PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:
>>
>>>Create a single source of truth for AI instructions in
>>>Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major AI coding
>>>assistants:
>>>- CLAUDE.md (Claude Code)
>>>- .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot)
>>>- .cursorrules (Cursor)
>>>- .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium)
>>>- .continue/context.md (Continue)
>>>- .windsurfrules (Windsurf)
>>>- Documentation/AIder.conf.yml (Aider)
>>>
>>>Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>>>---
>>> .aider.conf.yml                 | 1 +
>>> .codeium/instructions.md        | 1 +
>>> .continue/context.md            | 1 +
>>> .cursorrules                    | 1 +
>>> .github/copilot-instructions.md | 1 +
>>> .windsurfrules                  | 1 +
>>> CLAUDE.md                       | 1 +
>>> Documentation/AI/main.md        | 5 +++++
>>
>>So I'm gonna ignore (for now) the substantive issues here to ask: do we
>>*really* need to introduce Markdown into Documentation/?  Are these
>>things really unable to understand RST?  Why not add a file that can be
>>part of the docs build so people can see the instructions that are being
>>provided?
>
>From my understanding, most of the agents out there expect a markdown
>file ("CLAUDE.md", ".github/copilot-instructions.md", etc).
>
>All the documentation and examples I can find online insist on
>markdown... I suspect that they will also understand RST, but then we'll
>be doing something "unsupported".
>
>Though in this scenario, maybe even just plain text will be enough?

I've tested providing a RST file instead of markdown to Claude, Copilot,
and Cursor. All 3 seemed to be okay with it and followed the
instructions in it.

I'll switch to RST.

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Thanks,
Sasha