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## What it detects

Four detectors run against each commit, each producing findings at a confidence level:
The built-in detectors run against each commit, each producing findings at a confidence level:

**High confidence** -- strong signals that an AI tool authored or co-authored the commit:
- Known AI bot committer emails (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Gemini Code Assist, Amazon Q, Devin, Cline, Continue.dev, Cody, JetBrains AI, CodeRabbit). Also matches on the numeric prefix of GitHub noreply emails, so bot username renames don't break detection.
- `Co-Authored-By` trailers with known AI tool emails (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider).
- `git-ai` authorship logs stored in git notes under `refs/notes/ai`, including the attributed tool and model when available.
- AI session ID trailers (such as Replit-Commit-Session-Id) combined with other known commit trailers, indicating that the commit was generated as part of an AI conversation or workflow.

**Medium confidence** -- patterns in the commit message itself:
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detection/ Core types: Detector interface, Finding, Confidence, Input
detection/committer/ Known AI bot committer emails
detection/coauthor/ Co-Authored-By trailer parsing
detection/gitnotes/ git-ai authorship logs from refs/notes/ai
detection/message/ Commit message pattern matching
detection/toolmention/ AI tool name mentions in text
gitops/ go-git wrapper for reading commits
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