Collab Kit

Production-grade developer toolkit for engineering collectives, pair programming, and multi-agent workflow attribution. Built by crustdev.

Overview

When engineering teams and AI agents collaborate on modern software, tracking co-authorship and crediting contributors is essential. Collab Kit provides an automated engine to parse, format, validate, and credit git commit trailers (such as Co-authored-by: Name <email>) according to RFC 2822 specifications and GitHub contribution guidelines.

Features

• Trailer Parser: Robust extraction of commit subjects, bodies, and terminal git trailer blocks.
• Co-author Formatter: Generates RFC-compliant Co-authored-by commit trailers with automatic deduplication.
• Validation Engine: Verifies name and email syntax on staged commit messages or git hook files (COMMIT_EDITMSG).
• Release Credits Generator: Scans git commit ranges and produces clean markdown tables or lists for release notes.
• GitHub Action & Git Hooks: Integrates seamlessly into CI pipelines and local pre-commit hooks.

Installation

npm install -g @crustdev/collab-kit

Or run directly via npx:

npx @crustdev/collab-kit help

CLI Usage

1. Validate Commit Message

Validate whether a commit message has properly formatted trailers and valid emails:

# Validate a git hook file
collab-kit validate .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG

# Or validate an inline commit string
collab-kit validate "feat: core update\n\nCo-authored-by: Alice <[email protected]>"

2. Generate Co-author Trailer

Format a standard co-author trailer:

collab-kit format "Rustaman Delvianova" "[email protected]"

Output:

Co-authored-by: Rustaman Delvianova <[email protected]>

3. Generate Release Attribution Credits

Scan commits between branches or tags to generate markdown attribution for your changelog:

collab-kit credits origin/main..HEAD

Output:

### Contributors & Co-authors

Thanks to everyone who paired and contributed code in this release:
- **Rustaman Delvianova** (`[email protected]`)
- **github-actions[bot]** (`41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com`)

Programmatic API

import {
  parseCommitMessage,
  validateCommitMessage,
  formatCoAuthorTrailers,
  generateReleaseCredits
} from "@crustdev/collab-kit";

// Parse commit message
const parsed = parseCommitMessage(rawMessage);
console.log(parsed.coAuthors);

// Validate
const result = validateCommitMessage(rawMessage);
if (!result.valid) {
  console.error(result.errors);
}

// Generate release markdown
const credits = generateReleaseCredits(parsed.coAuthors);

GitHub Actions Integration

Add this step to your PR validation workflow to ensure all paired commits follow clean trailer conventions:

- name: Validate PR Co-authors
  uses: Rustaman1280/collab-kit@main
  with:
    range: origin/main..HEAD

License

MIT (c) 2026 Rustaman Delvianova / crustdev.