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SoftwareOctober 12, 2026, 19:39

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.

Linux kernel may get an agents/ directory for AI assistant skills
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