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

Sasha Levin
2025-07-30T23:47:28Z

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 03:06:26PM -0700, Kevin Hilman 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

Thanks! I'll drop aider.

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Thanks,
Sasha