Re: [RFC 1/2] AI: Add unified AI coding assistant configuration

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:24:08 -0400
Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:15:33PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 12:27:50PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:  
> >>Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>  
> >>>Create a single source of truth for AI instructions in
> >>>Documentation/AI/main.md with symlinks for all major AI coding
> >>>assistants:
> >>>- CLAUDE.md (Claude Code)
> >>>- .github/copilot-instructions.md (GitHub Copilot)
> >>>- .cursorrules (Cursor)
> >>>- .codeium/instructions.md (Codeium)
> >>>- .continue/context.md (Continue)
> >>>- .windsurfrules (Windsurf)
> >>>- Documentation/AIder.conf.yml (Aider)
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>---
> >>> .aider.conf.yml                 | 1 +
> >>> .codeium/instructions.md        | 1 +
> >>> .continue/context.md            | 1 +
> >>> .cursorrules                    | 1 +
> >>> .github/copilot-instructions.md | 1 +
> >>> .windsurfrules                  | 1 +
> >>> CLAUDE.md                       | 1 +
> >>> Documentation/AI/main.md        | 5 +++++  
> >>
> >>So I'm gonna ignore (for now) the substantive issues here to ask: do we
> >>*really* need to introduce Markdown into Documentation/?  Are these
> >>things really unable to understand RST?  Why not add a file that can be
> >>part of the docs build so people can see the instructions that are being
> >>provided?  
> >
> >From my understanding, most of the agents out there expect a markdown
> >file ("CLAUDE.md", ".github/copilot-instructions.md", etc).
> >
> >All the documentation and examples I can find online insist on
> >markdown... I suspect that they will also understand RST, but then we'll
> >be doing something "unsupported".
> >
> >Though in this scenario, maybe even just plain text will be enough?  
> 
> I've tested providing a RST file instead of markdown to Claude, Copilot,
> and Cursor. All 3 seemed to be okay with it and followed the
> instructions in it.
> 
> I'll switch to RST.

Maybe you can also check if aren't there one "unified" file where
others would read, or if are there any efforts to unify them.

I strongly suspect that, if not now, with time, they'll all end 
supporting "alien" files for the most popular tools, if they don't
find their own special file name.

Thanks,
Mauro