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commit_check.api had no page on the site. The core README carried it until the README pass (commit-check/commit-check#587) cut it to one example, on the understanding that the site would pick it up. guides/python-api.md covers all six functions -- including validate_tag and validate_push, which the old README never listed -- what each reads from git when a value is left out, the result shape and what pass, fail, skip and warn mean, and that the API does not read cchk.toml: config is a dict merged over the defaults, so a repository's file has to be loaded and passed in, and inherit_from is not followed. Every Python sample was run against commit-check 2.18.1 and its output pasted as printed. The page is in the nav under Guides and is linked from Where to run it and from the end of Reading the JSON.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes add a Python API guide that documents validation functions, inputs, results, configuration handling, and examples. The integration guide, example page, and Guides navigation link to or describe the API. ChangesPython API documentation
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- Line 14: Update the integration overview and Python API table entry to clarify
that only integrations that load configuration automatically read cchk.toml.
State that the Python API uses built-in defaults unless callers load cchk.toml
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| | [GitHub App](github-app.md) | On every push and pull request, hosted | No | Install once for the organization | | ||
| | [Command line](../example.md) | Wherever you call it: a range of commits, a CI you write yourself | — | `pip install commit-check` | | ||
| | [MCP server](mcp.md) | Before the commit exists, inside an AI coding agent | — | One entry in the agent's MCP config | | ||
| | [Python API](python-api.md) | Wherever your own code runs: a bot, a server-side hook, an agent you build | — | `pip install commit-check`, then `import commit_check.api` | |
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`validate_message(message, *, config=None)` validates the full commit message (subject plus optional body). It strips surrounding whitespace, merges any supplied config over built-in defaults, then runs the message checks and returns a dict with `status`, `warnings`, and per-check results. ([raw.githubusercontent.com](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commit-check/commit-check/v2.18.1/commit_check/api.py))
To see the exact default rules and values, you’ll also need `get_default_config()` and the message-check definitions—the linked `api.py` delegates to those rather than listing the defaults itself. With no config, the project describes its defaults as checking Conventional Commits; partial overrides are supported, e.g. `{"commit": {"allow_commit_types": ["feat", "fix"]}}`. ([raw.githubusercontent.com](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/commit-check/commit-check/v2.18.1/commit_check/api.py))
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Qualify the shared-configuration claim for the Python API.
The opening text says every integration reads cchk.toml, and the table includes the Python API. validate_message(..., config=None) uses built-in defaults and merges only caller-supplied configuration. It does not load cchk.toml. A caller can therefore enforce defaults instead of the repository policy.
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-Commit Check is one rule engine with several places to run it, and every one of them reads the same `cchk.toml`, so the rules cannot drift between what a developer sees locally and what is enforced on the pull request.
+Commit Check is one rule engine with several places to run it. Integrations that load configuration automatically read the same `cchk.toml`, so the rules cannot drift between what a developer sees locally and what is enforced on the pull request. The Python API starts from built-in defaults; load `cchk.toml` and pass it as `config` to apply the repository policy.
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-| [Python API](python-api.md) | Wherever your own code runs: a bot, a server-side hook, an agent you build | — | `pip install commit-check`, then `import commit_check.api` |
+| [Python API](python-api.md) | Wherever your own code runs: a bot, a server-side hook, an agent you build | — | `pip install commit-check`, then `import commit_check.api`; load `cchk.toml` and pass it as `config` to use the repository policy |The explicit Configuration section limits the impact, so this is a minor documentation issue rather than a major workflow failure.
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| | [Python API](python-api.md) | Wherever your own code runs: a bot, a server-side hook, an agent you build | — | `pip install commit-check`, then `import commit_check.api` | | |
| | [Python API](python-api.md) | Wherever your own code runs: a bot, a server-side hook, an agent you build | — | `pip install commit-check`, then `import commit_check.api`; load `cchk.toml` and pass it as `config` to use the repository policy | |
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Review comment at @docs/guides/integrations.md at line 14:
Update the integration overview and Python API table entry to clarify that only
integrations that load configuration automatically read cchk.toml. State that
the Python API uses built-in defaults unless callers load cchk.toml and pass it
as config to apply repository policy.
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commit-check.com/guides/python-api/ now documents commit_check.api (commit-check/commit-check.com#47), so the README's short note points there. It also names all six functions -- validate_tag and validate_push were missing -- and says the one thing a caller is most likely to get wrong: the API does not read cchk.toml, so the policy has to be passed as a config dict.
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This adds a Python API page.
commit_check.apihad no page on the site. The core README used to document it, until the README pass (commit-check/commit-check#587) cut that section down to one example on the understanding that the site would take it over. This is that page.guides/python-api.mdvalidate_message,validate_branch,validate_author,validate_tag,validate_pushandvalidate_all. The old README never listedvalidate_tagorvalidate_push. For each function the table says what it checks and what it reads from git when a value is left out.validate_allreads nothing from git.--format json. The page explains whatpass,fail,skipandwarnmean, and whenfixis filled in.cchk.toml.configis a dict merged over the built-in defaults. To use a repository's own policy, load the file withtomlliband pass it in. On Python 3.10, commit-check already depends ontomli.inherit_fromis not followed this way, and the page says so.fixand validates again, which is the same loop the MCP server teaches.Links to the page
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validate_tag()returnsskipon a commit that has no tag, as the table says.mkdocs build --strictpasses (withSOCIAL_CARDS=false).python -m pytest tests/ -qpasses with the released package installed (10 tests). The pins and the changelog were already at 2.18.1.Follow-up
Once this deploys, the core README's AI-native usage section can link here. That section currently names only three of the other five functions.
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