Adopt Linux kernel policy on AI coding assistants - #653
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Document, in CONTRIBUTING.rst, that AI agents must never add their own Signed-off-by tag and that AI involvement must be disclosed with an Assisted-by trailer, mirroring the Linux kernel's coding-assistants.rst policy. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5 Signed-off-by: Xavier Delaruelle <xavier.delaruelle@cea.fr>
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Signed-off-bytag (only the human submitter can) and that AI involvement in a contribution must be disclosed with anAssisted-bytrailer, mirroring the Linux kernel'sDocumentation/process/coding-assistants.rstpolicy..hunspell.en.dicwith the new terms introduced by this doc change.Test plan
make testlint/script/mt lint 00/030(Tcl/shell lint, unaffected)cd doc && make htmlbuilds cleanly with the updated CONTRIBUTING.rstscript/pre-commitchecks (codespell, hunspell, whitespace) pass on the change