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Canonical cliff.toml should strip ZWSP at generation (bot regens re-import GitHub-defused mentions) #897
Description
Problem
Squash-merge commit messages on the estate contain GitHub's ZWSP-defused
@-mentions (206 instances on maa-framework main). Every changelog-bot
regeneration via changelog-reusable.yml re-imports them into CHANGELOG.md,
which reddens any invisible-character linter on the consuming repo
(maa-framework #192 did exactly this, right after #188 had stripped them).
Stripping in the repo is whack-a-mole: the next bot run re-adds them.
Request
Add a commit_preprocessors rule (or equivalent post-processing) to the
canonical templates/cliff.toml that strips invisible characters (at least
U+200B; ideally the full set U+00A0 U+00AD U+2060 U+FEFF U+200B-U+200F
U+202A-U+202F U+2066-U+2069) from generated output, so all consuming repos stop
re-importing defused mentions at generation time.
Related: #896 (caller top-level permission rule, same reusable).
Discovered via: hyperpolymath/maa-framework#192.
Activity
hyperpolymath commentedon Sep 22, 2026
Additional finding from the maa-framework rollout: the bot is currently self-feeding. Each merged bot PR adds a
chore(changelog): regenerate...commit, which the next run dutifully changelogs into a new PR (#195 merge -> #196 containing only the #195 entry, ad infinitum). Request addition: canonicalcliff.tomlshould alsoskip_commitsthe bot own message (e.g.^chore\(changelog\)), so bot merges do not generate follow-up PRs. Until then the consuming repo closes bot PRs that contain only chore entries.