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diff --git a/claude-rules/commits.md b/claude-rules/commits.md index 4509cee..4e23a75 100644 --- a/claude-rules/commits.md +++ b/claude-rules/commits.md @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Absolutely no AI/LLM/Claude/Anthropic attribution in: - Code comments - Commit trailers - Release notes, changelogs, and any public-facing artifact +- Document author metadata — an org `#+AUTHOR:` line, YAML frontmatter `author:`, a docx or PDF author property, a byline This means: @@ -32,6 +33,34 @@ If a tool, template, or default config inserts attribution, remove it. If settings.json needs it, set `attribution.commit: ""` and `attribution.pr: ""` to suppress the defaults. +### Generated documents carry the human author only + +Every document an agent writes or updates — a daily prep, a session log, a +spec, an explainer, a meeting summary — names the human as its sole author. +`#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings`, never `Craig Jennings & Claude`, and never an +agent's name standing alone. + +The failure mode is imitation, not intent. No template stamps this line; +agents copy the author header from whatever sits nearby — yesterday's prep, +the workflow file they're reading, the doc next to the one they're writing. +So a single stray `& Claude` propagates through everything generated +afterward, and no amount of fixing individual files stops it. Fix the files +an agent reads, and state the rule here. + +The stakes are highest where the rule is least visible. A private notes repo +tolerates a co-author line; many employers do not, and their policy is that +work product carries employee names alone. An `#+AUTHOR:` line survives +conversion into docx, a published wiki page, or a PDF handed to a customer, +so a header written in a scratch document three months ago can surface inside +a deliverable. Write the header correctly at creation. + +Two things this rule does not ask for. Don't rewrite historical records — +archived session logs and past dated documents stay as they are, because +they're a record of what happened rather than a live artifact. And don't +relabel a document another agent genuinely authored: if Codex wrote it, the +byline stays Codex. The rule removes false co-authorship, not true +authorship. + ## Commit Message Format Commit messages follow the [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/) spec. |