Re: [PATCH] coding-assistants: simplify attribution

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 >

So I think we're kinda aligned on that?

Probably worth keeping the 'what it did' bit fuzzy.

>
> -K

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Cheers, Lorenzo