docs: add Signed commits section to CONTRIBUTING

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Adds a Signed commits section to this repo's CONTRIBUTING, per owner ruling D218. The estate policy is docs/SIGNING-POLICY.adoc in hyperpolymath/standards.

This repo's default branch is covered by the zero-bypass Require-Signed-Commits ruleset, and rebase-merge is off. The section tells contributors what that requires:

• People and interactive agents sign with an SSH signing key.
• Apps, bots and workflows write through the API, so GitHub signs their commits.
• PRs are merged with squash.

If the file already had its own signing section, that section is replaced in place instead of adding a second one. Lines elsewhere that told people to sign with GPG are changed to match the policy (SSH for people).

This is a docs-only change. The commit was created through createCommitOnBranch, so GitHub signs it.

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140-140: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

The GitHub API response does not establish the effective merge setting because all merge-policy fields returned null. The repository metadata states allow_rebase_merge: true, but the effective GitHub setting remains undecidable from the available evidence.

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• Documentation
  • Added contribution guidance requiring signed commits on the default branch. People and interactive agents must use a GitHub-registered SSH signing key and verified committer email; apps, bots and workflows must use the approved API or action to push signed changes. Guidance also covers squash-merging, branches with unsigned commits, and the availability of rebase-merging.

Walkthrough

The contribution guide now describes signed-commit requirements, commit methods for people and automation, and merge rules for unsigned commits and rebase merges.

Changes

Signed commit guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contributor signing and merge instructions .github/CONTRIBUTING.md	The guide requires people and interactive agents to use a GitHub-registered SSH signing key and verified committer email. It directs apps, bots and workflows to use the API or estate signed-push action instead of pushing local commits. It instructs contributors to squash-merge, states that unsigned PR-branch commits block merging, and notes that rebase-merge is enabled in .github/repo-meta.yml.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 04cbe

The documentation explains signing requirements and matches the repository’s configured merge methods. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2c0ac

The changed surface does not map to a changed system, dependency edge, entrypoint, or external dependency.

Changed systems: None identified.

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in .github/CONTRIBUTING.md: Added signed-commit requirements and contributor instructions: people and interactive agents use registered SSH signing keys and verified committer email; apps, bots and workflows create commits through the API rather than pushing local commits. Contributors are instructed to squash-merge; unsigned commits on the PR branch block merging, and rebase-merge is disabled.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the documentation change and its signing-policy context.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the addition of the Signed commits section to CONTRIBUTING.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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- Line 140: Update the rebase-merge statement in the contribution guide to match
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