Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents

Which makes sense, if you want some standards across contributions. Setting aside that agent assisted contribution itself is questionable, as long as it is happening, a universal agents file is probably helpful.

I don’t get why agents.MD needs to be committed. It feels a bit like committing IDE settings, everyone is going to have slightly different preferences, so its better to just have everyone do their own thing. If anything, I prefer to .gitignore itso it doesnt get accidentally committed.

Like formatters and git ignore configuration, some agent instructions are personal and those should not be commited. But some are worth sharing. Having formatter config in a repo is not uncommon. And in this case the file is only a link to the readme, so the agent reads the contrib guidelines.

I’m on board with committing formatter config, because thats deterministic and really should be shared amongst a team.

I don’t get why the agent needs to have the contrib guidelines, it should be a human doing the actual contrib part, so its just a waste of tokens for the LLM to read it?