Re: [PATCH] coding-assistants: simplify attribution

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 01:09:23PM +0200, Jori Koolstra wrote:
>
> > Op 04-08-2026 10:10 CEST schreef Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 04:48:03PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 02:34:40PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > > > -  Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
> > > > +  Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle sparse
> > >
> > > I've been playing with this a bit, and it's pretty easy to teach the agent to
> > > add a few tag-like notes as to how exactly it was used, e.g.:
> > >
> > >     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=018b87444d32eb2ffee7cb25f0785e54aa35f7bf
> > >
> > > This has:
> > >
> > > | Assisted-by: LLM [design, codegen, tests]
> > >
> > > It tells us a bit more about *how* the LLM was used, without introducing the
> > > advertisement or pinning exact models.
> > >
> > > This format should allow for multiple tool usage:
> > >
> > > | Assisted-by: LLM [triage, tests], coccinelle
> > >
> > > I don't suggest this is included in this version, but it *is* fairly
> > > straightforward to add to AGENTS.md and tells reviewers just how exactly the
> > > LLM was used.
> >
> > I think perhaps this should be a follow-up (this stuff is so fraught that I am
> > super-glad to see Christian's suggestion fly through and want to take gains
> > iteratively on this :), but completely agree.
> >
> > David suggested something like:
> >
> > Assisted-by: LLM # < what it actually did in the patch >
> >
>
> We should have some format to explain what the assistant was used for,
> but not sure if a single line after the tag is going to cut it. I agree
> it is the most simple, but I have personally used an LLM for a patch where
> the explanation of what exactly it was put to do would have been very
> hard to fit in a format like this without significant loss of information.
>
> So, maybe below the ---? I guess that most maintainers don't want this kind
> of explanation to be part of the commit message (or maybe they do?)

I think best to keep discussion of this to the follow up patch to avoid the
usual combinatorial thread explosion on this topic :)

>
> Best,
> Jori.

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Cheers, Lorenzo