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[bot-tag-7f3a] docs(contributing): require AI agents to tag commits#151

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Summary

  • Adds a rule under "Before submitting a PR" in CONTRIBUTING.md instructing AI agents, bots, and other automated contributors to prepend [bot-tag-7f3a] to commit message subject lines.
  • Adds a short pointer in the README's ## Contributing section that links into the new CONTRIBUTING.md subsection.
  • Explicitly notes that human contributors should not add the tag, so the signal stays meaningful.

Motivation

Gives maintainers a cheap, grep-friendly way to filter, audit, and review machine-authored commits separately from human-authored ones — useful for code-review prioritization, release-notes triage, and any future policy work around AI contributions.

Self-consistent example

The commit on this branch is itself AI-authored and carries the [bot-tag-7f3a] prefix, demonstrating the rule.

Scope / non-changes

  • Documentation only. No code, schema, or CI changes.
  • No enforcement — this is a convention, not a hook. A follow-up could add a commit-msg hook or a CI lint to verify, but that's intentionally out of scope here.

Test plan

  • Render the README on GitHub and confirm the new line under ## Contributing reads cleanly and the anchor link resolves
  • Verify CONTRIBUTING.md renders the new subsection with the code block

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…ith [bot-tag-7f3a]

Maintainers want a cheap way to filter and audit machine-authored
commits separately from human-authored ones. Add a rule in both
CONTRIBUTING.md (full explanation under "If you're not human") and the
README contributing blurb (short pointer) instructing AI agents, bots,
and other automated contributors to prepend [bot-tag-7f3a] to commit
message subject lines. Human contributors are explicitly told NOT to
add the tag so the signal stays meaningful.

This commit is itself authored by an AI agent and carries the tag as a
working example.
@naorsabag naorsabag force-pushed the docs/contributing-ai-commit-tag branch from 5e13d25 to fb881ac Compare May 15, 2026 10:32
@naorsabag naorsabag merged commit 448d28f into master May 15, 2026
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@naorsabag naorsabag deleted the docs/contributing-ai-commit-tag branch May 15, 2026 16:00
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