Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: reject trailers that credit an AI agent

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 12:19:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 9/3/26 12:14, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > +# Reject trailers that credit an AI agent.
> > > +		if ($realfile =~ /^$/ &&
> > > +		    ($line =~ /🤖/ ||
> > 
> > Oh wow, is that something people actually do :-)
> 
> IIRC it's more in pull requests but it was fun to add.
> 
> > > +		     $line =~ /^\s*(?:Assisted|Generated)-by:/i ||
> > > +		     ($line =~ /^\s*Co-authored-by:\s*(.*?)\s*$/i &&
> > > +		      $1 =~ /\bcopilot\b | \bchatgpt\b | \bcodex\b | \bcursor\b | \[bot\] |
> > > +			     \bllama\b | \bgemini\b.*(?:pro|flash|ultra|google\.com) |
> > > +			     \bclaude\b.*(?:opus|sonnet|fable|haiku|anthropic\.com)/xi))) {
> > 
> > I presume the qualifiers after gemini/claude are a mitigation against
> > accidentally matching a real person's name ?
> 
> For Claude yes, for Gemini I guess it's not really needed.  BTW I have no
> idea which coding harnesses use Co-authored-by specifically so this is
> really just a guess.

I expect Co-authored-by is often added by the contributor themselves


With regards,
Daniel
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