Linux kernel may get an agents/ directory for AI assistant skills
Stable kernel maintainer Sasha Levin has proposed adding an agents/ directory to the kernel source tree to hold skills and prompts for AI coding assistants. The first skill, find-fixes, would verify which commit introduced a bug before assigning a Fixes: tag, since an estimated 15–20% of such tags are wrong.
- The patch adds an agents/ directory at the kernel tree root and a MAINTAINERS entry
- Each skill lives under agents/skills/ with a SKILL.md entry point in Agent Skills format
- The find-fixes skill reads Git history and returns a proposed Fixes: tag with evidence
- Hannes Reinecke estimates 15–20% of Fixes: tags are incorrect
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