Re: [PATCH 1/2] agents: add infrastructure for agent resources

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 06:54:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Add agents/ as a home for skills, prompts, and other resources for coding
> assistants. Describe the skill layout and how to read the procedures in
> coding-assistants.rst, and add a MAINTAINERS entry covering agents/.
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                 |  6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> index 051f0d819f68e..3288b32e993f5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
> @@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ For guidelines on content generated by AI coding assistants see:
>  
>  * Documentation/process/generated-content.rst
>  
> +Agent resources
> +===============
> +
> +The ``agents/`` directory holds skills, prompts, and other resources for
> +coding assistants.
> +
> +Skills live under ``agents/skills/<name>/``, with a ``SKILL.md`` entry point
> +in the `Agent Skills format
> +<https://agentskills.io/specification>`_. Read the relevant resource
> +directly from its repository path. Links within a skill are relative to
> +that skill's directory.
> +
>  Licensing and Legal Requirements
>  ================================
>  
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 65e8a4b5c90b1..2a09e95b801eb 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -713,6 +713,12 @@ F:	Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst
>  F:	fs/afs/
>  F:	include/trace/events/afs.h
>  
> +AGENT RESOURCES
> +M:	Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +L:	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	agents/

If you choose a separate entry instead of adding this to the existing
"Documentation Process" entry, let's update the mailing list to
workflows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. This is where all process changes are announced.

Thanks