gitlint-rai 0.1.3

Gitlint plugin for RAI footer validation

gitlint-rai

A commitlint plugin that enforces exactly one thing:
if AI touched the code, say so in the commit. ⚖️

That’s it. No philosophy, no negotiations. Pick a trailer and move on.

Installation 🔧

pip install gitlint-rai

Or with uv, which is objectively the better choice:

uv add gitlint-rai

Usage 🚦

Add this to your .gitlint config:

[general]
extra-path=gitlint_rai

Then run:

gitlint

Or use the standalone wrapper:

gitlint-rai

To verify the rule loaded:

gitlint --list-rules | grep rai-footer-exists

Expected output:

rai-footer-exists  Commit message must include a valid RAI footer

If you see that, the plugin is active and doing its job.

Valid Trailers 📌

Pick exactly one. If you skip it, the commit fails. If you use two, the commit also fails.

This is not a debate.

1. Authored-by: [Human] <email> — all you, no AI involved
2. Commit-generated-by: [AI Tool] <email> — AI wrote the commit message, you wrote the code
3. Assisted-by: [AI Tool] <email> — AI helped some, you were driving
4. Co-authored-by: [AI Tool] <email> — roughly 50/50, like actual pair programming
5. Generated-by: [AI Tool] <email> — AI did most of it, you supervised

All patterns are case-insensitive, because life is too short for that kind of pedantry.

Why This Exists ⚖️

Git already supports trailers. Commits already support attribution. What they don’t do is require you to be honest when AI is involved.

This plugin exists to make that honesty boring, consistent, and automatic, so nobody has to reconstruct intent later by reading commit history like tea leaves.

If you want the longer reasoning behind this, it lives at Did AI Erase Attribution?.

This plugin is the practical follow-through.

Requirements ⚙️

• Python >= 3.11, < 3.13
• gitlint >= 0.19.1

License 📄

PolyForm Shield License 1.0.0