Nine Months of Nagging, Zero Reading

🦄 I shipped a linter that fails your commit if you won't admit AI touched the code, and then did the most predictable thing possible—let nine months of the data sit there untouched while I busied myself with other things. Then I actually looked at it: nine months of footers piled up in git log like a lonely change jar. Every one of them said how much of those commits were mine, but I hadn't ever sat down and actually counted the jar. So I built the thing to count it. 🪙 The Jar Nobody Counted 🫙 Nine months of commits, every single one carrying a footer that states how much of it I actually wrote, and I could not have told you the number—not roughly or even within twenty points. It was all sitting in git log , structured, and enforced on every commit by a hook I built specifically for that purpose. But it was completely inert. Dropping change in a jar isn't the same as knowing how much money is in it. rai-lint will block your commit until you write the footer, but then it's done—the pile just sits there, and I never built the thing that adds it up. anchildress1 / rai-lint Dual-language linter for Responsible AI commit footers — shared logic for Node (commitlint) and Python (gitlint). Stop playing hide-and-seek with AI in your commits. A dual-language validation framework that makes AI attribution non-negotiable. 📊 Project Stats 🗣️ Languages 📦 Packages 🤖 AI & Automation 🔧 Quality & Standards Installation • Quick Start • Required Commit Footers • Documentation What is this? 🤖 RAI Lint enforces Responsible AI (RAI) attribution in every commit. No more "who wrote this?" moments. No more mystery code. Just honest, trackable AI contributions. Read the full story: Did AI Erase Attribution? Your Git History Is Missing a Co-Author %%{init: {'theme':'dark'}}%% flowchart LR A[Developer Commits] --> B{Has AI Footer?} B -->|Yes| C[Commit Accepted ✅] B -->|No| D[Commit Rejected ❌] C --> E[Clear AI Attribution] D --> F[Add Footer & Retry] Loading Why does this exist? Because transpa