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I'm on board with committing formatter config, because thats deterministic and really should be shared amongst a team.
I don't get why the agent needs to have the contrib guidelines, it should be a human doing the actual contrib part, so its just a waste of tokens for the LLM to read it?
Waste of tokens for the agent to make changes that the human then changes to comply with contrib guidelines. Potentially a smaller number used to read in some guidelines and get closer to correct in the first place.
Why would you want to waste the tokens required to generate a subpar response that will either require the user to undo a potentially significant portion of what was generated, or you'll end up using more tokens while the operator tries to get the AI to obey the standard (before they inevitably tell the stupid thing to follow the guide themselves later, anyway)?
At least for the specific example given, I want developers to do the commit part themselves, so if their LLM is doing any part of that, its already a mistake IMO.
I had a very quick look at the AI agent guidelines, and nothing about them strikes me as overly burdensome for a human to fix up. So I'd rather just do that myself (if I were a kernel dev).
My main objection is forcing it on developers, it should be up to each dev to configure and manage their own agent. Making it a suggestion is fine, just don't commit it. Also, if developers are using local hosted models, then context may be quite limited, so wasting it on an Agents.MD maybe be unideal.