git-attribution

Git commit attribution (kernel policy)

Follow https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html#attribution on every commit, in any repo on this machine.

The rule

• Credit AI assistance with an Assisted-by: trailer:

  Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
  

  Format is Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [extra-analysis-tools]. Append specialized analysis tools only if actually used (e.g. coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy). Update the model version to whichever model you actually are.

• Never add Signed-off-by: as the AI. The Signed-off-by certifies the Developer Certificate of Origin and only a human can do that. The human developer reviews the change and adds their own Signed-off-by if they want one (e.g. git commit -s).

• Never add Co-Authored-By: Claude. That older convention is replaced by Assisted-by: here.

• Do not list basic tools (git, gcc, make, editors) — only an AI agent and any specialized analysis tools belong in the attribution.

Why

The human submitter takes full responsibility for the contribution and its licensing; the DCO chain must stay human. Assisted-by: records the assistance transparently without implying the AI can certify provenance.

Enforcement

This plugin ships a PreToolUse hook (scripts/attribution-guard.py) that inspects git commit commands and blocks any that author a message without an Assisted-by: trailer, or that try to add an AI Signed-off-by / Co-Authored-By: Claude. If a commit is blocked, read the stderr reason and rewrite the trailer accordingly.