On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 05:12:15PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 09:49:45AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > Add a top-level AGENTS.md symlink to README, so agents load it on their > > own and follow its pointer to the AI guidelines. This keeps a single > > entry point for every reader, and avoids adding a separate copy of the > > policy that could drift from the RST. > > Yeah, I think this is fine. I don't want a separate file just for > Agents: we intentionally designed the README to work for them. That > there are Agents missing it is sad, but okay. And the Agents are already > trained to deal with for-human docs, so that it adds more tokens > shouldn't matter here since it's tiny. (If it reads the contribution > docs before every patch creation that seems like a good thing?) > > Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
It won't come as a surprise, but I want to voice opposition to encouraging users to use AI agents for kernel development. This patch does so, so NAK. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
