Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] agents: add skills for Fixes tags, stable tags, similar bugs, and commit messages

["Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 09:50:47PM -0500, Kees Cook wrote:
> Exactly. And the rate of frontier model improvement has me convinced
> that there is no need to spend any time writing documentation to be
> consumed _only_ by the agents. If an agent gets it wrong after reading
> our existing documentation, ask it what would need to change for it to
> understand it, and then see if that makes it better for a human too, and
> send those patches. :)

We might not want to assume that everyone has access to frontier
models.  At the very least some people might want to use things like
Gemini Flash instead of Gemini Pro, and there will also be people who
wants to use local LLM's.  Even if we don't care about usage of more
modest LLM's, there is still an economic (and environmental!) reason
why we might want to make sure that we promote token-efficient usage.
We certainly don't want to assume that LLM's need to read *all* of
Documentation for every single prompt.

					- Ted