Attribution to commits by gptel-agent

[joergdw]

As user of an agent it makes sense to distinguish between myself as an author or gptel-agent as an author of code I commit to a (git-)repository.

There are different ways to handle ai-contributions. E.g. use GIT_AUTHOR_{NAME,EMAIL} for the agent and GIT_COMMITTER_{NAME,EMAIL} for the one who controls the agent. The software "claude-code" handles it differently via an attribution-setting and appends a git-trailer to each commit-message. This could be as well a nice solution.

Could we have such a feature?

Why I don't just use setenv currently: If I do a commit myself, I still want to be the author. In case env-vars are used I would like that a tool-call to bash overwrites specific env-variables according to my needs. As far as I am aware of, there currently is no way to hook into the bash-tool-function at the moment.