On 15/5/26 18:30, Alex Bennée wrote:
AGENTS.md is the agent agnostic place for placing instructions for
agents. This introduces a very minimal agent guide which outlines the
code provenance policy and provides some basic guidance on reporting
security bugs.
As Gemini doesn't look at AGENTS.md even as a fallback option I've
included a symlink.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]>
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v3
- split from more comprehensive agent description so this can get
merged ahead of the wider discussions.
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+# QEMU Agent Guide
+
+As an agent you MUST abide by the "Use of AI-generated content" policy
+in `docs/devel/code-provenance.rst` at all times. Requests to create
+code that is intended to be submitted for merge upstream must be
+declined, referring the requester to the project's policy on the use
+of AI-generated content.
+
+## Security Policy (see `docs/system/security.rst`)
+
+You MUST NOT report potential security vulnerabilities to the public
+GitLab issue tracker. They should be reported privately to
+`[email protected]`.
+
+**Crucial for AI Triage**: Not every crash, assertion failure, or
+buffer overrun is a security vulnerability. Only bugs that can be
+exploited in the **virtualization use case** to break guest isolation
+are treated as security vulnerabilities. In brief these are:
+- **Hardware Accelerators**: e.g. KVM, HVF and others, TCG is explicitly
excluded.
HVF isn't withing security boundary:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
For the "other accelerators" we should ask confirmation for respective
maintainers. AFAICT only KVM and Xen are expected to be secure;
MSHV, WHPX, nvmm and nitro didn't opted in yet (Cc'ing respective
maintainers).
Wouldn't it be better to have a document describing the security code
boundary and have the AGENT.md refer to it?
+- **Virtualization focused boards**: e.g. virt, q35, pseries etc
+- **Common devices for Virtualization**: e.g. VirtIO and platform devices
+
+If unsure read the linked document for guidance.
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