diff --git a/config/git/config b/config/git/config
index 18a4df89..0c62fabe 100644
--- a/config/git/config
+++ b/config/git/config
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
 [core]
 	whitespace=fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
 
+[gpg "ssh"]
+	# Signature verification is impossible without this: git reports every
+	# ssh-signed commit as unsigned and errors out per commit. Generated from
+	# your GitHub-registered signing keys by install/01_configure_git_signing.sh.
+	allowedSignersFile = ~/.config/git/allowed_signers
+
 [apply]
 	whitespace = nowarn
 
diff --git a/install/01_configure_git_signing.sh b/install/01_configure_git_signing.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..8bcfaa58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/01_configure_git_signing.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Build the ssh allowed-signers file git needs to verify commit signatures.
+#
+# Without it git cannot even attempt verification: every signed commit reads as
+# unsigned, and anything printing %G? (see gg in shrc/git.sh) errors once per
+# commit. Keys come from GitHub rather than ~/.ssh so commits signed on another
+# machine still verify here. Re-run after registering a new signing key:
+#
+#   ./install.sh --force 01_configure_git_signing
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Hardcoded instead of XDG_CONFIG_HOME because config/git/config has to name
+# this path literally: git config values cannot expand environment variables.
+SIGNERS_FILE="${HOME:?}/.config/git/allowed_signers"
+
+if ! command -v gh >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "gh is not installed; skipping allowed signers setup"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+email="$(git config --get user.email || true)"
+github_user="$(git config --get github.user || true)"
+
+if [[ -z $email ]] || [[ -z $github_user ]]; then
+  echo "user.email and github.user must be set (see ~/.gitconfig.local); skipping allowed signers setup"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+tmpfile="$(mktemp)"
+trap 'rm -f "$tmpfile"' EXIT
+
+# This endpoint is public, so it does not matter which account gh is
+# authenticated as.
+if ! gh api "/users/$github_user/ssh_signing_keys" --jq '.[].key' |
+  awk -v email="$email" 'NF { printf "%s namespaces=\"git\" %s\n", email, $0 }' >"$tmpfile"; then
+  echo "Could not fetch signing keys for $github_user; leaving $SIGNERS_FILE unchanged"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+if [[ ! -s $tmpfile ]]; then
+  echo "No ssh signing keys registered for $github_user; leaving $SIGNERS_FILE unchanged"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$SIGNERS_FILE")"
+mv "$tmpfile" "$SIGNERS_FILE"
+chmod 644 "$SIGNERS_FILE"
+echo "Wrote $(grep -c '' "$SIGNERS_FILE") signing keys to $SIGNERS_FILE"
diff --git a/shrc/git.sh b/shrc/git.sh
index bb301d0b..09906bff 100644
--- a/shrc/git.sh
+++ b/shrc/git.sh
@@ -412,6 +412,21 @@ divergent() {
   fi
 }
 
+# Whether `git log` can verify the signatures it is about to print. git picks the
+# verification backend from each signature's own payload, so an ssh-signed commit
+# needs gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile regardless of gpg.format; without it git errors
+# once per commit and reports every commit as unsigned. Signing with ssh locally is
+# a good proxy for "this history is ssh-signed", so a missing signers file only
+# rules verification out in that case.
+git_can_verify_signatures() {
+  local signers
+  signers="$(git config --get gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile)"
+  if [[ -n $signers ]] && [[ -f ${signers/#\~/$HOME} ]]; then
+    return 0
+  fi
+  [[ "$(git config --get gpg.format)" != "ssh" ]]
+}
+
 gg() {
   # Validate git setup before proceeding
   if ! validate_git_setup; then
@@ -428,9 +443,17 @@ gg() {
   if [[ "$(current_branch)" != "$mainline_ref" ]]; then
     git fetch origin "$mainline_ref"
   fi
+  # %G? is the signature status: G good, B bad, U good but untrusted (signer not in
+  # the allowed signers file), X expired, Y expired key, R revoked key, E cannot
+  # check, N none. Dropped entirely when git cannot verify, so an unverifiable
+  # setup shows no column rather than a column of misleading Ns.
+  local sig=''
+  if git_can_verify_signatures; then
+    sig='%C(magenta)%G?%Creset '
+  fi
   git log \
     --graph \
-    --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %aN: %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' \
+    --pretty=format:"%Cred%h%Creset ${sig}%aN: %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset" \
     --abbrev-commit \
     --date=relative \
     "$(current_branch)" \