Re: [PATCH 1/4] agents: add unified agent coding assistant configuration

Rob Herring
2025-08-01T20:53:13Z

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > Create a single source of truth for agent instructions in
> > Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major coding
> > agents:
> > - CLAUDE.md (Claude Code)
> > - .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot)
> > - .cursorrules (Cursor)
> > - .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium)
> > - .continue/context.md (Continue)
> > - .windsurfrules (Windsurf)
> > - .aider.conf.yml (Aider)
>
> This doesn't work for aider, probably because the .md it links to is not
> YAML. When I start aider with this, I get:
>
> aider: error: Couldn't parse config file: while scanning a simple key
> in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 3, column 1
> could not find expected ':'
> in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 4, column 1
>
> Not related to this series, but related to aider... I'm curious if
> anyone has got aider to work with the kernel repo. It seems to have
> problems with large repos. When starting in the kernel, I get:
>
> Unable to list files in git repo: cannot close exported pointers exist
> Is your git repo corrupted?
> Unable to read git repository, it may be corrupt?
> cannot close exported pointers exist
>
> but neither claude nor gemini-cli have any problems with the same repo.
>
> The aider FAQ[1] mentions using .aiderignore to ignore parts of the
> repo, but even with an "ignore everything" rule, I get the same error,
> so something seems wrong with aider and large repos.

It worked for a bit for me, but then aider fell over after a while and
refused to run with errors accessing git. Some suggestions to repack
the repo didn't help. In the end, I just ran it without any git
awareness.

Rob