References: AI-authored commits and PRs

Primary sources

• Git official documentation, the git-commit(1) and git-interpret-trailers(1) man pages. Authoritative for the trailer mechanism, the format, and how trailers are processed.
• GitHub documentation, “Creating a commit with multiple authors” (the platform’s documentation of the Co-Authored-By convention and how it’s rendered).
• The Claude Code commit conventions (2026 documentation), the source for the “Generated with [Claude Code]” marker convention used in this lesson. Adopted by the Clawless codebase and many other projects.

Further reading

• “Multi-author commits in git”, community write-ups on the Co-Authored-By trailer, predating AI usage. The convention has long been used for human pair-programming credit; AI use is a natural extension.
• “Reviewing AI-generated code”, 2026 community writing on review best practices. Multiple authors, varying quality. Useful for cross-checking your team’s checklist against others’.
• “AI authorship and software licensing”, legal-focused write-ups on the licensing landscape for AI-generated code. Varies by jurisdiction; treat as orientation, not authoritative guidance.
• “The accountability principle in AI-assisted development”, community writing on the human-responsibility framing. Often framed as the social contract of AI-assisted engineering.

How this lesson uses sources

L15’s conventions follow the Co-Authored-By trailer specification from git’s documentation and the “Generated with Claude Code” marker from Claude Code’s documentation. The review-lens checklist is synthesized from community writing on AI code review plus the lesson author’s experience. The accountability principle framing is widely shared in the AI-engineering community as of 2026; this lesson articulates it clearly but does not claim invention.

The Clawless commit convention (used across the Clawless codebase) is referenced as a working example of these conventions in production.

License note

This lesson is original content for the T7 track. Git command syntax is from the public domain Git documentation. The trailer conventions are widely-used standards. The “Generated with [Claude Code]” marker convention is associated with the Claude Code tool but the pattern (tool-marker followed by Co-Authored-By trailer) is general.

This lesson is part of the Clawdemy curriculum, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 4.0 International. Commercial use is licensed separately at /legal/licensing.