[PATCH] coding-assistants: simplify attribution

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 11:54:48 EST


The requirement to identify specific models used in the Assisted-by tag
provides free advertising to proprietary software companies while adding
little or no useful information. Change the requirement to simply:

Assisted-by: LLM

to capture the fact that an LLM was used without tracking which one.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20260701-work-coding-assistants-v1-1-a20a94d1d606@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
index 899f4459c52d..fe34f3e7e828 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
@@ -43,12 +43,8 @@ When AI tools contribute to kernel development, proper attribution
helps track the evolving role of AI in the development process.
Contributions should include an Assisted-by tag in the following format::

- Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
+ Assisted-by: LLM [TOOL1] [TOOL2]

-Where:
-
-* ``AGENT_NAME`` is the name of the AI tool or framework
-* ``MODEL_VERSION`` is the specific model version used
* ``[TOOL1] [TOOL2]`` are optional specialized analysis tools used
(e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy)

@@ -56,4 +52,4 @@ Basic development tools (git, gcc, make, editors) should not be listed.

Example::

- Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
+ Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle sparse
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