Re: AGENTS.md

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:17:05 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected],
>   [email protected],  [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:08:05 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]>
> >> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]>
> >> >> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> >> >> 
> >> >> > Again, we created it to help users making innocent mistakes, using
> >> >> > whatever LLM-based agents, both proprietary and free.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Do the emacs modes that drive LLMs support AGENTS.md?
> 
> > They are not part of Emacs.  Almost all of them are from MELPA, which
> > package.el by default doesn't even access.  The Emacs project is not
> > responsible for those packages.
> 
> Three are from elpa. At least those are relevant.

Two of them, maybe.  The third is about code completion.

> > I have no idea which of these support AGENTS.md.
> 
> For AGENTS.md in Emacs, the support by harnesses in Emacs should be the
> most relevant, otherwise that would not help people who use Emacs to
> work on Emacs.
> 
> I asked to know whether it could be useful to write to the devs of those
> packages whether they could add support for it, but I didn’t expect that
> that hadn’t been checked at all.

Feel free to write to the developers of those packages, I think it's a
good idea.

Thanks.