Developer finds AI commit script's tests only cover non-critical regex

The author of a commit message generation script, which uses the Claude AI model, found that its self-testing routine only verifies a small, non-critical part of the code. The script, `git_commit.py`, is designed to call the `claude` CLI to generate commit messages from staged code diffs. While the script has five potential failure points, including timeouts and the `claude` binary not being found, its `--selftest` block only tests a regular expression used for stripping AI attribution lines. This contrasts with other scripts in the repository that more thoroughly stub network calls and test actual failure modes. AI

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