Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 12:16:40PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Whether a fix needs a stable tag, and which releases it should reach, is
> decided by hand and is often missed or left too broad. Add a skill that
> sends the agent to stable-kernel-rules.rst for the decision and the tag
> format, lists the kinds of changes the stable trees take and leave out
> in practice, and adds the checks agents tend to get wrong: finding the
> first release that contains each introducing commit, checking that the
> fix applies to the oldest affected release, giving every stable tag the
> same version, and following the subsystem's stable policy.
> 
> If the decision cannot be made, the skill returns no tag. Point the
> bug-fix procedure in coding-assistants.rst at the skill.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst |  7 +-
>  agents/skills/stable-tag/SKILL.md           | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 agents/skills/stable-tag/SKILL.md

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>