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Coding agents sign their commits with `Co-Authored-By: <model>` by default, and the repository gives them no instruction to do otherwise. Git and GitHub read every name in that trailer as an author of the commit, so a tool listed there claims authorship instead of recording which tool was used. Add an `AGENTS.md` with a one-sentence rule that asks for `Assisted-by: <tool> (<model-id>)` instead, the trailer the Linux kernel, Fedora, Mesa, Zephyr, and NullAway use. Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
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Coding agents sign their commits with
Co-Authored-By: <model>by default, and Error Prone gives them no instruction to do otherwise: the repository has noAGENTS.md. Git and GitHub read every name in that trailer as an author of the commit, so a tool listed there claims authorship instead of recording which tool was used.This adds an
AGENTS.mdwith one rule: end commit messages withAssisted-by: <tool> (<model-id>), neverCo-Authored-By:, and keep existing trailers when amending.Assisted-by:is the trailer the Linux kernel, Fedora, Mesa, and Zephyr settled on, and the human contributor stays the sole author.The wording is copied verbatim from uber/NullAway#1811. It is deliberately one sentence with no rationale around it: every sentence in the file steers an agent, and the wording was chosen by running Claude and Codex agents against live repositories, where shorter or descriptive variants let
Co-Authored-By:through. The test matrix and the reproduction prompt are in apache/jmeter#6760.🤖 Generated with Claude Code