I thought we need to vote on if we accept the agents file (per the review)
On Fri, Oct 16, 2026, 2:36 PM Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> wrote: > The header says this is a vote, but there is nothing to vote on ;-) > I assume it is a discussion? > > > Am 16.10.2026 um 15:56 schrieb Kristian Rickert <[email protected]>: > > > > This email requests a vote on the AGENTS.md PR here: > > > > https://github.com/apache/opennlp/pull/1470 > > > > This is the initial draft. It is a file for LLMs that all the frontier > > apps read. It does not promise that LLMs will adhere to the AGENTS.md, > but > > they "usually" do. > > > > Per Martin's advice, I suggest extending this to everyone: avoid > > overthinking or over-engineering. The Linux kernel is dropping the rule > to > > include "assisted by" for a multitude of reasons. Also, keep in mind > > that it's concise because we want to avoid sending too many tokens. > > > > Below is for reference in case you're not familiar with AGENTS.md; we > > already have a discussion thread, but feel free to discuss here or in the > > PR itself. I'll summarize everything on this thread as we go along. > > Official Spec > > > > https://agents.md/ > > Claude's take > > > > If CLAUDE.md doesn't exist, it will treat AGENTS.md the same way: > > > > https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory > > OpenAI's take > > > > https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md > > Lucene's take > > > > We did take inspiration from lucene's AI Policy but theirs is for humans, > > and AGENTS.md is for machine: > > apache/lucene@c94ed04 > > < > https://github.com/apache/lucene/commit/c94ed045b8a107aef4c2c07eafad42e7b82dbda6 > > > > > > > > *Linux Foundation's recent take* > > > > https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req > > > > > > Before commenting, I ask that we read some of the above guidelines to > > understand what the file should and should not contain. > > > > Keep in mind, I suspect this will be a moving target - so having > something > > is better than nothing. > > > > Again - this file is for machines to read. Not humans. So that's why > it's > > slightly chunked, follows guidelines, and includes nearly everything we > > discussed on the discussion thread. > > > > Kristian > >
