🏗️🔧：keep a tool out of the author credit - #916
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change documents assistant attribution rules and extends commit trailer validation to reject assistant or bot identities in ChangesAssistant attribution
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A prohibited assistant attribution can still be accepted when its product name is folded across trailer lines. Preserve the intended attribution policy before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@build/shared/commit-message.mts`:
- Around line 391-397: Update checkTrailers and the trailerBlockOf processing so
TOOL_COAUTHOR validates the complete folded Co-authored-by value, including
continuation lines rather than only the first line. Preserve indented
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- Line 416: Update the TOOL_COAUTHOR validation used by trailerBlockOf to
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`CONTRIBUTING.md` has always said an assistant is disclosed with an
`Assisted-by:` trailer and signs nothing. Nothing checked the other
half of that: `Co-authored-by:` is for people. A commit crediting a
model as a co-author reached an open pull request in two of the
repositories that take their checks from here.
Authorship is a claim only a person can make. The Developer Certificate
of Origin is certified by whoever wrote the code, and a tool certifies
nothing. `Assisted-by:` says what was used. `Co-authored-by:` says who
is answerable, and a model cannot be.
An agent writing its own commit message reaches for that trailer out of
habit, because that is what most of the code it learnt from does, and a
reviewer reading a long message is exactly who does not notice one line
at the bottom. Once it lands it is in the history for good.
So the check refuses it, on three things: the `[bot]` suffix, which
GitHub reserves so that no person can hold it; the addresses the agents
commit under, which are theirs alone and not the ones their staff use;
and a handful of product names. Only the last can reach a person, and
realistically only `claude`, which is also a name people have. That is
the trade, and if it ever refuses a real co-author the pattern gets
narrowed rather than the credit dropped.
Renovate and Dependabot are unaffected, since their commits are skipped
whole and never reach this. Nor does an agent that commits as a `[bot]`
account need naming, which is why Devin and Gemini are absent: both are
ordinary names before they are products.
A trailer whose value runs onto an indented line is read whole, which it
was not. The continuation was dropped before any check saw it, so these
two were one trailer to git and `git interpret-trailers --parse` printed
both as the same line, but only the first was refused:
Co-authored-by: Some Person <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Some Person
<noreply@anthropic.com>
The address is the half that says who a trailer names, it sits at the
end, and so it is the half a fold hides. Sign-off had the same hole from
the other side: a wrapped `Signed-off-by:` lost the address the author
is compared against. The continuation is now joined onto the value the
way git joins it.
Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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Summary
CONTRIBUTING.mdhas always said an assistant is disclosed with anAssisted-by:trailer and signs nothing. Nothing checked the other half of that:Co-authored-by:is for people. A commit crediting a model as a co-author reached an open pull request in two of the repositories that take their checks from here.Authorship is a claim only a person can make. The Developer Certificate of Origin is certified by whoever wrote the code, and a tool certifies nothing.
Assisted-by:says what was used.Co-authored-by:says who is answerable, and a model cannot be.Why a check and not a review note
An agent writing its own commit message reaches for that trailer out of habit, because most of the code it learnt from does. A reviewer reading a long message is exactly who does not notice one line at the bottom. Once it lands it is in the history for good.
What it refuses
A
Co-authored-by:whose value matches an assistant's address, a[bot]account, or one of the agent product names that reach these repositories.It refuses on three things: the
[bot]suffix, which GitHub reserves so that no person can hold it; the addresses the agents commit under, which are theirs alone and not the ones their staff use; and a handful of product names. Only the last can reach a person, and realistically onlyclaude, which is also a name people have. That is the trade, and if it ever refuses a real co-author the pattern gets narrowed rather than the credit dropped.An agent whose integration commits as a
[bot]account needs no name in the list, which is why Devin and Gemini are absent: both are ordinary names before they are products. Renovate and Dependabot are unaffected either way, since their commits are skipped whole and never reach this check.Validation
[bot]account fails, and two confirming a person is not caught -- somebody at one of those companies, and somebody whose given name an agent also goes byRelated
This repository is where the module came from, and the two copies of it are being brought back in step: OpenINF/openinf.github.io#1899 and OpenINF/sdk#38.
build/shared/commit-message.mtsis byte-identical across all three, and stays that way. The portal pull request also updates the handbook page all three point contributors at.Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
Assisted-by:for assistant contributions.Bug Fixes
Co-authored-by:.Assisted-by:instead.