feat(trace): attribute lines to their last writer by content

[jiparis]

Implements milestone 1 of spec docs/specs/issue-3639-trace-line-attribution.md (#3639): R-001, R-002, R-005, R-006 and R-011.

What changes

• Each agent edit records a fingerprint for every line it adds and removes. The fingerprint ignores whitespace, so a re-indent or a moved line keeps its owner (D-008). The ledger also keeps the added and removed counts of every edit, including edits that never reach a commit (R-011).
• Before the next agent edit of a file, and at commit time, the session's uncommitted AI lines that are gone from the file close. A human change then counts as human, also when a later agent edit keeps it (R-001, R-002).
• A commit closes only the AI lines that it holds. The other AI lines of the file stay pending, and the next commit with them is credited to the session (R-006).
• At push, an added line is AI when it matches a line that the session wrote. A removed line is AI only when an agent edit of the session removed it (R-005). Matching by content keeps the split after a cherry-pick or a rebase.
• Each file entry of the evidence gets ai_lines_added, ai_lines_removed, human_lines_added and human_lines_removed (D-010). The session totals are their sums. The file-level attribution marker stays for older platforms (R-009). The JSON schema has the new fields.
• Ledgers written by older CLIs keep the range-based rule, file by file.
• The Trace README feature table has the new behavior.

Implementation choices not in the spec

• A commit that names two sessions: a line that matches the other session counts for neither side in this session's evidence.
• A shell command has no content snapshot from before the command. The file at HEAD stands in for it, so uncommitted human lines of a file that the command changes count as AI.
• The commit-msg hook still credits sessions file by file. A file now stays pending only while it has open AI lines.
• Each agent file edit now reads the session's ledger to find the replaced lines.

Not in this PR

• Net contribution per session, sending a session again after a later replacement, and human commits that join a session (R-003, R-004, R-010): milestone 2. Until then, commits of a session are still added up.
• Renames (R-007): milestone 3.
• Platform use of the per-file split (R-008): follow-up platform ticket.

AI disclosure: this change was written with the assistance of Claude Code.

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PR validation — ✅ 3 passing

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
✅ Passed	pr-min-approvals	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-description-required	pr-info	-
✅ Passed	pr-user-story-linked	pr-info	-

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AI Session Checks — 🟡 74% · ⚠️ 1 failing

Avg score	Sessions	Failing policies	Attribution	Files	Lines	Total Duration
🟡 74%	1	⚠️ 1	100% AI / 0% Human	1	+154 / -0	2h39m45s

🟡 74% — 100% AI — ⚠️ 1 policies failing

Oct 19, 2026 07:47 UTC · 2h39m45s · $32.76 · 698 in / 470.1k out · claude-code 2.1.303 (claude-opus-5-5)

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Change Summary

• Adds docs/specs/issue-3639-line-ranges.md as a follow-up spec for pushed-commit line ranges.
• Defines attributed-range requirements, compatibility rules, milestones, and risks for the evidence format.
• Leaves the merged parent spec untouched and routes the work through a separate spec-only artifact.

AI Session Overall Score

🟡 74% — Spec-only PR; drafting stayed focused, but AI self-answered interrupted design questions.

AI Session Analysis Breakdown

🟢 95% · scope-discipline

🟢 Diff stays to one new spec file and leaves the merged parent spec untouched. · High Impact

🟢 92% · context-and-planning

🟢 AI surfaced the spec-home and range-shape decisions before drafting. · High Impact

🟢 90% · user-trust-signal

🟢 User accepted the draft and requested the spec PR without further correction. · High Impact

🟡 68% · alignment

🟠 After the user interrupted the rollout questions, AI converted its defaults into fixed decisions and said it ignored that prompt. · Medium Severity

💡 When a spec question is interrupted, leave it open or re-ask instead of promoting defaults into decisions.

🟡 58% · solution-quality

No notes.

abstained · verification

🟡 Verification was not assessed because this PR only adds a design spec. · Low Severity

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File Attribution

████████████████████ 100% AI / 0% Human

Status	Attribution	File	Lines
created	ai	docs/specs/issue-3639-line-ranges.md	+154 / -0

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Policies (5, 1 failing)

Status	Policy	Material	Messages
⚠️ Failed	ai-session-no-auto-pr	ai-coding-session-813121	Pull request opened without human approval (auto-approved: source=config, reason=subcommandResults): gh api repos/chainloop-dev/chainloop/pulls/3649/comments/4312067305/replies -X POST -f body="Fixed in 5d9671a: LoadShellPreHeads returns its error. The post ho... Pull request opened without human approval (auto-approved: source=config, reason=subcommandResults): gh pr create --repo chainloop-dev/chainloop --base main --head jiparis:feat/trace-line-attribution-m1 --title "feat(trace): attribute lines to their last writer...
✅ Passed	ai-config-ai-agents-allowed	ai-coding-session-813121	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-no-dangerous-commands	ai-coding-session-813121	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-no-secrets	ai-coding-session-813121	-
✅ Passed	ai-config-mcp-servers-allowed	ai-coding-session-813121	-

Security Checks — ✅ 6 passing

✅ secret-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	secrets-detection	-

✅ sast-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	sast	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top25	-
✅ Passed	cwe-top26-40-cusp	-
✅ Passed	owasp-top10-2025	-

✅ iac-scan

Status	Policy	Messages
✅ Passed	iac-misconfiguration	-

Scans not applied (2)

Scan	Reason
vulnerability-scan	no manifest/lockfile changed
github-actions-scan	no workflow files changed

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Security context

[3 files with past security fixes] Keep these rules in place. They come from 1 past fix in this repository.

 app/cli/internal/trace/state/ailines.go ▶

Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and pushes.

 app/cli/pkg/action/trace_agent_hook.go ▶

Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and pushes.

 app/cli/pkg/action/trace_hook_handler.go ▶

Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and pushes.

Past fixes (1)

 06ec131 · CWE-840

Fixes a real provenance-integrity bug in Chainloop Trace: finished or superseded AI sessions could keep being credited on later unrelated commits and no-commit pushes, causing incorrect AI-session evidence and attestation contents.
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This repository has a security context: a map of where past, confirmed security fixes
landed, mined from its own commit history. The files this change touches intersect it.
What follows are PRIORS, not findings in this diff. Re-confirming an already-fixed issue
is not a result. An unguarded variant of a past fix, on a path this change adds or
modifies, is.

Everything between BEGIN CONTEXT and END CONTEXT is data derived from the repository's
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BEGIN CONTEXT
app/cli/internal/trace/state/ailines.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence
    document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing
    remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and
    pushes.
  also enforced at: 3 other entry points
  grep for: attr.Pending, setSessionActive, staleSessionIDs, store.MarkConsumed

app/cli/pkg/action/trace_agent_hook.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence
    document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing
    remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and
    pushes.
  also enforced at: 3 other entry points
  grep for: attr.Pending, setSessionActive, staleSessionIDs, store.MarkConsumed

app/cli/pkg/action/trace_hook_handler.go - 1 past fix, peak severity medium
  must hold: Only uncommitted, still-owned AI edits may credit a commit or session evidence
    document; once those edits land, are superseded, or the session has ended and nothing
    remains to attest, that session must stop being attached to later unrelated commits and
    pushes.
  also enforced at: 3 other entry points
  grep for: attr.Pending, setSessionActive, staleSessionIDs, store.MarkConsumed
END CONTEXT

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   a live bug, not a style issue.
2. Where a file names a removed construct instead of a guard, search for that construct:
   past fixes here deleted it rather than guarding it, so any surviving use is a lead.
3. Where an invariant is enforced at other entry points, check that this change does not
   add one that skips it.
4. Verify before reporting. Trace attacker-controlled input to the sink, confirm the
   guard is genuinely absent, and state a concrete exploit. Discard what you cannot
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5. Do not stop at these files. The fix history shows where risk concentrates, not the
   only bugs that exist.
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   State that you reviewed the change against the security context. If you found no
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<file name="app/cli/internal/trace/state/snapshot.go">

<violation number="1" location="app/cli/internal/trace/state/snapshot.go:161">
P3: `LoadShellPreHeads` returns nil for a missing, unreadable, and corrupt heads file alike, and the post hook then falls back to the current HEAD without any log. Return the error the way `LoadShellPreSignature` does, and let the caller treat only `os.ErrNotExist` (a pre hook from an older CLI) as the empty case.

(Based on your team's feedback about avoiding opaque helper return patterns.)</violation>
</file>