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## Responding to PR Review Comments
## Agent Disclosure for PRs, Comments, and Commits

Disclosure is **continuous**, not a one-time event. A single AI-disclosure paragraph in the PR body does **not** cover the commits and replies you add during review rounds. Each of the following must independently attest to agent authorship.

### Commits

- **Every commit you author must carry an `Assisted-by:` trailer** identifying the agent and whether it acted autonomously or under direct human supervision, for example:

```
Assisted-by: GitHub Copilot (model: <name-if-known>, autonomous)
```

Use `supervised` instead of `autonomous` only when a human actually authored or line-by-line reviewed the change before it was committed.
- **Never push solo-authored commits that hide agent authorship behind the operator's git identity.** If an agent generated the change, the trailer must say so even when the commit is attributed to a human account.
- Preserve any tool-generated `Co-authored-by:` trailers (e.g. Copilot Autofix) — do not strip them to make a commit look hand-written.

### Comments

- If you are an agent working on behalf of a human, **disclose your identity in your PR comment** — name the agent (and model, if applicable) and the human you are acting for (e.g., "Posted on behalf of @user by GitHub Copilot (model: &lt;name-if-known&gt;)").
- **Re-state agent identity in each review-round summary comment.** A prior PR-body disclosure does not cover later comments or commits.
- Post **one** top-level summary comment per review round listing what changed and the commit SHA. Do not reply on every individual comment.
- Reply inline only when context is needed (disagreement, deferral, non-obvious fix). Keep it to a sentence or two.
- **Never click "Resolve conversation"** — that belongs to the reviewer or PR author.
- No emoji, no celebratory framing, no checklist mirroring the reviewer's items, no restating what the reviewer wrote.
- Re-request review once per round (when all feedback is addressed), not after every intermediate push.

### Anti-patterns (do not do these)

- **Do not** reply "Done" or push a "fix" within seconds/minutes of a review event without disclosing that the response or commit was agent-generated. Speed of turnaround is not a substitute for attestation — a near-instant tested code change is itself a signal of automation and must be disclosed as such.
- **Do not** claim "reviewed, tested, and understood by me" for commits that were authored and pushed automatically in response to a review trigger. If the loop is automated, disclose it as automated.

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## Common Pitfalls
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