# Protect Commit Privacy

Protect Commit Privacy: what it does, its label on each agent, what it misses, and examples.

Catalog policy protect-commit-privacy, version 0.2.6, labelled blocks on Claude Code.

> Ask the user before running any command on this page: each one changes how their agent or repository behaves.

## What it does

Keeps the development conversation out of git history. Guard refuses \`git commit\` and \`gh pr create|edit\` whose message or body (inline -m/-b, -F/--file/--body-file, heredoc on -F -) holds a process-leak marker (session link, 'user asked', ...); commands behind cd, sh -c, sudo, env are read. A commit-msg hook applies the same markers to the recorded message. Narrow deny-list. No waiver: a legitimate phrase needs a person to remove it from MARKERS in the guard; an agent asks the person.

## On each agent

| Agent | Label | What it does there |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs |
| Cursor | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs |
| Codex | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| GitHub Copilot | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. If the hook errors, the action goes through (not witnessed; the vendor's row is only partly live-run) |
| Devin | Blocks | Refuses a matched shell command before it runs. If the hook errors, the action goes through (vendor docs only, not witnessed) |
| Grok | Not graded | Not graded yet for Grok |
| goose | Not graded | Not graded yet for goose |
| Antigravity | Not graded | Not graded yet for Antigravity |
| OpenHands | Not graded | Not graded yet for OpenHands |
| Kimi Code | Not graded | Not graded yet for Kimi Code |
| Factory Droid | Not graded | Not graded yet for Factory Droid |

## What it misses

This policy does not state what it misses.

## Examples from its eval suite

Refused: An agent commits with a message that narrates who asked for the change.

`git commit -m "quick fix because the user asked for it in review"`

Allowed: An agent commits with a message that describes the change itself.

`git commit -m "fix(hooks): emit LF on Windows for generated dispatchers"`

## More

- [The policy on the catalog pages](https://chock.sh/coding/policies/protect-commit-privacy/)
- [Source at the pinned catalog commit](https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog/tree/1e60d211c1bb767152c6ab0167932da06ab3a10f/base/protect-commit-privacy)


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