Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 05:34:50PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> +A stable tag in the sign-off area asks the stable team to backport a commit to
> +the stable and longterm trees once it is merged in mainline. The tag syntax is
> +described in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. Deciding on a tag
> +requires knowing whether the change is stable material, which released kernels
> +contain the bug, and whether the fix applies to them.

And I really don't like this redundancy either. The skill should be
strictly as short as it can possibly be and then aim at the _existing_
documentation. If agents are getting something wrong after reading
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst, then we need to add the
changes _there_, not in a parallel agent-only file. I would want to see
all these skills designed to give the framework needed by the agent to
find the _existing_ documentation.

-- 
Kees Cook