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[](https://codecov.io/gh/commit-check/commit-check)
[](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/commit-check/commit-check)
-## Table of Contents
+**One versioned policy for Git commit metadata — enforced in the terminal, in hooks, in CI, and on your AI agents.**
-- [Overview](#overview)
-- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
-- [Installation](#installation)
-- [Configuration](#configuration)
- - [Use Default Configuration](#use-default-configuration)
- - [Use Custom Configuration File](#use-custom-configuration-file)
- - [Organization-Level Configuration (inherit_from)](#organization-level-configuration-inherit_from)
- - [Use CLI Arguments or Environment Variables](#use-cli-arguments-or-environment-variables)
- - [Check Push Safety](#check-push-safety)
-- [AI-Native Usage](#ai-native-usage)
- - [Machine-Readable JSON Output (--format json)](#machine-readable-json-output---format-json)
- - [Quieter Human-Readable Output](#quieter-human-readable-output)
- - [Python API (no subprocess required)](#python-api-no-subprocess-required)
-- [Examples](#examples)
-- [Badging your repository](#badging-your-repository)
-- [Why Commit Check?](#why-commit-check)
-- [Versioning](#versioning)
-- [Have question or feedback?](#have-question-or-feedback)
-- [License](#license)
-
-## Overview
-
-**Commit Check** is a lightweight policy engine for Git commit metadata.
+Commit Check validates commit messages, branch names, author identity, signoff
+trailers, AI attribution, and push safety. The rules live in one TOML file in
+your repository; the CLI, pre-commit, GitHub Actions, and AI automation all
+enforce the same ones.
-It validates commit messages, branch names, author identity, signoff trailers,
-AI attribution policy, and push safety — using one versioned TOML policy across
-local hooks, CI, GitHub Actions, and AI automation.
+This is what a pull request sees when something slips — the offending value,
+each failed rule linked to its documentation, everything that passed folded
+away:
-- **One policy file:** `cchk.toml`
-- **Multiple enforcement points:** CLI, pre-commit, CI / GitHub Actions
-- **Machine-readable output:** JSON + Python API for automation and AI agents
-
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+
## Quick Start
-**1. Install and run with zero configuration:**
+**1. Run it once with zero configuration:**
```bash
pip install commit-check
commit-check --message --branch
```
-**2. Add to your pre-commit hooks** (`.pre-commit-config.yaml`):
+**2. Enforce it on every commit** (`.pre-commit-config.yaml`):
```yaml
repos:
- repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
- rev: v2.12.2
+ rev: v2.14.0
hooks:
- id: check-message
- id: check-branch
```
-**3. Add a badge to your repository:**
+**3. Enforce it on every pull request** (`.github/workflows/commit-check.yml`):
+
+```yaml
+name: Commit Check
+
+on:
+ pull_request:
+
+permissions:
+ contents: read
+ pull-requests: write # pr-comments needs this
+
+jobs:
+ commit-check:
+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+ with:
+ fetch-depth: 0
+ - uses: commit-check/commit-check-action@v2
+ with:
+ message: true
+ branch: true
+ author-name: true
+ author-email: true
+ pr-title: true
+ job-summary: true
+ pr-comments: true
+```
+
+The comment in the screenshot above is what `pr-comments` posts. On pull
+requests from forks the token is read-only, so the comment is skipped —
+[the action's docs](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check-action/blob/main/docs/fork-pr-comments.md)
+show a two-workflow setup that covers forks too. The author checks validate
+the checkout's resolved author, one scope per run.
+
+**4. Say so:**
```text
[](https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check)
```
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
+- [Installation](#installation)
+- [Configuration](#configuration)
+ - [Use Default Configuration](#use-default-configuration)
+ - [Use Custom Configuration File](#use-custom-configuration-file)
+ - [Organization-Level Configuration (inherit_from)](#organization-level-configuration-inherit_from)
+ - [Use CLI Arguments or Environment Variables](#use-cli-arguments-or-environment-variables)
+ - [Check Push Safety](#check-push-safety)
+- [AI-Native Usage](#ai-native-usage)
+ - [Machine-Readable JSON Output (--format json)](#machine-readable-json-output---format-json)
+ - [Quieter Human-Readable Output](#quieter-human-readable-output)
+ - [Python API (no subprocess required)](#python-api-no-subprocess-required)
+- [Examples](#examples)
+- [Badging your repository](#badging-your-repository)
+- [Why Commit Check?](#why-commit-check)
+- [Versioning](#versioning)
+- [Have question or feedback?](#have-question-or-feedback)
+- [License](#license)
+
## Installation
To install Commit Check, you can use pip:
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## Examples
+What the CLI looks like in the terminal:
+
+
+
### Check Commit Message Failed
```text
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