Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] agents: add skills for Fixes tags, stable tags, similar bugs, and commit messages

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 04:47:14PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > At the Maintainers Summit, Ted asked whether the stable trees have a way
> > to deal with incorrect Fixes tags. Hannes estimated that 15-20% of them
> > are wrong, often because the author ran git blame and took the first
> > commit that touched the line [1]. We use LLM workflows to find the
> > commit that actually introduced a bug, and others asked us to share
> > them.
> >
> > This series adds them as agent skills under agents/skills/, together
> > with a skill for writing commit messages:
> 
> Time to argue for a more fuchsia shade of mauve without actually getting
> into the substance of what you're doing...:)
> 
> I wonder about the top-level agents/ directory.  If we regard this
> material as documentation, perhaps the "skills" should go there too?  As
> readable text, they might just help to improve human skills as well,
> assuming we think we still need those.  Under Documentation, they could
> be built into the rendered docs and made more widely available.
> 
> Otherwise, if this is primarily a development tool, perhaps under tools/
> makes sense?
> 
> I lack strong opinions here, but figured I would ask the question.

I was expecting this to appear under Documentation/. The agents are
designed to read human text, so let's make it at least passingly
sensible for humans to read too. :)

-- 
Kees Cook