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Co-Authored-By Is a Lie: Cryptographic Provenance for AI Coding Agents

Co-Authored-By Is a Lie: Cryptographic Provenance for AI Coding Agents

by rduffyuk·Jun 12, 2026·1 point·0 comments

AI Analysis

PassBold Bet

Compelling security argument but no shipped code or working implementation.

Strengths
  • Correctly identifies Co-authored-by as an attack surface for supply chain attacks
  • Hardware-backed signing would genuinely solve the forgery problem
Weaknesses
  • No installable tool, demo, or code repository to evaluate
  • Architecture decision record without implementation is spec, not product
Category
Target Audience

Engineering leaders concerned about AI code attribution

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