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In `@collections/_docs/handbook/style/commit-messages.md`:
- Around line 167-170: Update checkSignOff() to reject commits when any
Signed-off-by: trailer identifies an assistant or bot, even if the author
matches; add regression tests covering both identity types and preserve
acceptance for valid sign-offs.
- Around line 150-158: Update the verification flow in verify-commits.mts,
specifically checkSignOff, to reject non-skipped commits whose author identity
is an assistant or other non-human, even when the Signed-off-by: trailer matches
exactly; retain standard bot skipping and do not validate tool identities in
sign-off trailers. Add coverage for a non-skipped assistant-authored commit with
a valid matching sign-off that must fail.
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The sign-off section explained that a tool cannot certify the Developer
Certificate of Origin "which is why the check compares the name against
the author". That is not why, and the sentence told a reader the rule
was enforced when it was not. Comparing the two catches a tool signing
on somebody else's behalf. It has nothing to say when the tool is the
author, which is the case an agent arrives in:
Author: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The page said elsewhere that an assistant gets no `Signed-off-by:`, so
the rule was here. What was missing is the sentence the rule rests on:
a commit's author has to be a person. Without it an agent can satisfy
every other sentence on the page by making itself the author, and read
the advice to keep `git config` as the identity you commit under as
telling it to.
So the sign-off section says what the check asks, both halves of it,
and the assistant section says who may be an author and what an agent
committing for somebody does instead.
This repository keeps its own copy of the commit message rules, beside
the ones in OpenINF/.github and OpenINF/sdk. All three were the same
file, and the sign-off hole was in all three. Leaving this one behind
would have been the worse half of the bargain: the handbook page is
published from here, so the page and the checker sitting next to it in
the same repository would have disagreed. The pattern that refuses a
tool as a co-author refuses one as a signer too now, whoever the author
is, and `[bot]` is read where an account name ends rather than anywhere
in the value. Ported whole from OpenINF/.github#924, so the three
copies are identical again.
The one `--` in the page is an em dash now. It sits in a sentence this
change was rewriting anyway, and the handbook's own page on dashes has
it under "not recommended".
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Before: the sign-off section said a tool cannot certify the Developer
Certificate of Origin "which is why the check compares the name against the
author rather than merely looking for the line." That is not why. Comparing the
two catches a tool signing on somebody else's behalf, and has nothing to say
when the tool is the author — which is the case an agent arrives in:
So the page told a reader the rule was enforced where it was not. The rule
itself was on the page, further down: an assistant "does not get a
Signed-off-by:either." What was missing is the sentence it rests on. Acommit's author has to be a person. Without that, an agent can satisfy every
other sentence here by making itself the author, and read "keep
git config user.nameanduser.emailas the identity you commit under" astelling it to do exactly that.
And this repository keeps its own copy of
build/shared/commit-message.mts,beside the ones in
OpenINF/.githubandOpenINF/sdk. All three werebyte-identical, so the hole was here too — which would have left the page and
the checker disagreeing inside a single repository.
After: the sign-off section states both halves of what the check asks — that the
line names the author, and that it names a person. The assistant section says
who may be an author, shows the shape that used to pass, and says what an agent
committing for somebody does instead. The checker in this repository enforces
it, so the page describes something true here and not only elsewhere.
How: two paragraphs rewritten and one added in the handbook, plus the pattern
description widened to cover both trailers. The validator change is ported
whole from OpenINF/.github#924 —
TOOL_IDENTITY(wasTOOL_COAUTHOR) guardsSigned-off-by:as well asCo-authored-by:, placed incheckTrailersratherthan
checkSignOffso it also covers the squashed messageland-pull-request.mtsvalidates, with[bot]read where an account name endsso it cannot match inside a person's name. Seven tests came with it, and the
three copies are identical again.
The single
--in the page is an em dash; it sits in a sentence this change wasrewriting anyway, and the handbook's own
dashes page has that spelling
under "not recommended".
OpenINF/.github#924 and OpenINF/sdk#67 carry the same validator change in the
other two repositories.
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nps verify.unit(161 pass),verify.ts,verify.mdandverify.spelling.Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
Validation Improvements
Signed-off-by:entries against the commit author.[bot], while preserving valid human identities.