Simon Willison hides long AI-written PR descriptions in collapsible GitHub sections
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Simon Willison says he now writes a short opener by hand for his AI-generated pull requests and places the full agent-written description inside a details/summary element.
He says the collapsed summary can name the model and effort level, such as "Claude Opus 5.5 Medium." He notes that GitHub Markdown supports these tags in PR descriptions and issue comments.
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AISimon Willison says he now writes a short human-picked opener for his AI-generated pull requests and puts the full agent-written description inside a details/summary element. The collapsed summary can name the model and effort level, such as "Claude Opus 5.5 Medium," and GitHub Markdown supports the tags in PR descriptions and issue comments.
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