Sasha Levin <[email protected]> writes: > Most coding agents have standardized on AGENTS.md as the file they load > automatically from the root of a repository. README already tells AI > tools to read and follow Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst, > but that only helps if the agent decides to read README before acting, > which in practice it often doesn't. > > 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.
I'm still not fully thrilled by this change, I must admit. But I have gone ahead and applied it; hopefully it will help to improve the quality of the patch flood some. Thanks, jon
