linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] agents: add unified agent coding assistant configuration

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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqJW206w1OiOZ+4nMg7XyHQq7QnOyTWM0W+DyMmu-gpAjw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 15:53:00 -0500
From: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	workflows@...r.kernel.org, josh@...htriplett.org, kees@...nel.org, 
	konstantin@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] agents: add unified agent coding assistant configuration

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> writes:
>
> > Create a single source of truth for agent instructions in
> > Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major coding
> > agents:
> > - CLAUDE.md (Claude Code)
> > - .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot)
> > - .cursorrules (Cursor)
> > - .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium)
> > - .continue/context.md (Continue)
> > - .windsurfrules (Windsurf)
> > - .aider.conf.yml (Aider)
>
> This doesn't work for aider, probably because the .md it links to is not
> YAML.  When I start aider with this, I get:
>
>   aider: error: Couldn't parse config file: while scanning a simple key
>     in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 3, column 1
>   could not find expected ':'
>     in "/work/kernel/linux/.aider.conf.yml", line 4, column 1
>
> Not related to this series, but related to aider... I'm curious if
> anyone has got aider to work with the kernel repo.  It seems to have
> problems with large repos.  When starting in the kernel, I get:
>
>   Unable to list files in git repo: cannot close exported pointers exist
>   Is your git repo corrupted?
>   Unable to read git repository, it may be corrupt?
>   cannot close exported pointers exist
>
> but neither claude nor gemini-cli have any problems with the same repo.
>
> The aider FAQ[1] mentions using .aiderignore to ignore parts of the
> repo, but even with an "ignore everything" rule, I get the same error,
> so something seems wrong with aider and large repos.

It worked for a bit for me, but then aider fell over after a while and
refused to run with errors accessing git. Some suggestions to repack
the repo didn't help. In the end, I just ran it without any git
awareness.

Rob