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Adds a Signed commits section to this repo's CONTRIBUTING, per owner ruling D218. The estate policy is docs/SIGNING-POLICY.adoc in hyperpolymath/standards.

This repo's default branch is covered by the zero-bypass Require-Signed-Commits ruleset, and rebase-merge is off. The section tells contributors what that requires:

  • People and interactive agents sign with an SSH signing key.
  • Apps, bots and workflows write through the API, so GitHub signs their commits.
  • PRs are merged with squash.

If the file already had its own signing section, that section is replaced in place instead of adding a second one. Lines elsewhere that told people to sign with GPG are changed to match the policy (SSH for people).

This is a docs-only change. The commit was created through createCommitOnBranch, so GitHub signs it.

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Owner ruling D218. See docs/SIGNING-POLICY.adoc in hyperpolymath/standards.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance requiring commits to the default branch to be signed and verified.
    • Clarified signing requirements for people, interactive agents, apps, bots and workflows.
    • Documented that pull requests must be squash-merged; unsigned commits block merging, and rebase merging is unavailable.

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The contribution guide now requires signed commits on the default branch. It describes signing methods for people and automated workflows, and states that pull requests must use squash merges.

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Signed commits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document signing and merge requirements
CONTRIBUTING.adoc
The guide describes SSH signing keys and verified committer email for people and interactive agents. It directs apps, bots and workflows to use the GitHub commit API or the signed-push action. It also states that unsigned branch commits block merging and that pull requests must be squash-merged.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to db89d

The signing guidance is consistent with the checked-in contract and linked estate policy. The new heading can misplace the section in rendered navigation; this is a limited documentation issue, so the PR is otherwise low-risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to db89d

This documentation change does not grant new access or modify enforcement. No introduced security weakness was established. Assurance is limited because the externally managed signing and merge controls were not verified against the written requirements.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The direct changed surface affects contributor and automated-writer guidance for repository commits. It does not introduce application-runtime, tenant-data, credential-provisioning, or deployment changes.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — The guide assigns signing responsibilities to contributors or GitHub-mediated automation and delegates default-branch admission to an external ruleset. The changed text itself neither implements those controls nor establishes their effective configuration.
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Comment thread CONTRIBUTING.adoc
* *Security*: See SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting
* *Maintainer*: Jonathan D.A. Jewell j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- TOC and CONTRIBUTING references ---'
rg -n -i --glob '!target/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' '(:toc:|toclevels|toc::|asciidoctor|CONTRIBUTING\.adoc)' .
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Keep this heading at the guide’s section level.

== Signed commits is a sibling of == Contributing to VeriSimDB, while the guide’s main sections use ===. Change it to === Signed commits to keep the document outline consistent. If a renderer enables a TOC, this also preserves the expected nesting.

Proposed fix
-== Signed commits
+=== Signed commits
📝 Committable suggestion

‼️ IMPORTANT
Carefully review the code before committing. Ensure that it accurately replaces the highlighted code, contains no missing lines, and has no issues with indentation. Thoroughly test & benchmark the code to ensure it meets the requirements.

Suggested change
== Signed commits
=== Signed commits
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Review comment at @CONTRIBUTING.adoc at line 226:
Change the Signed commits heading to the same subsection level as the guide’s
other main-section subsections, preserving its position and content.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
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