Post by @gTsintzas@programming.dev

2026-10-31 20:46 UTC

I’m seeing Claude as a contributor all the time in random repos, but like, how does that even happen? In my experience with “agentic” coding, the agent does not get credit for commits, even if all diffs were made by them. What kind of workflows do people have for Claude to credit itself in a commit?

Replies (4)

@malwieder@feddit.org 2026-10-31 20:57

GitHub parses “Co-authored-by” trailers Claude Code adds to all its commits by default.

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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-10-31 21:10

Claude has established precedent that Claude credits itself on commits unless you direct it not to. I don’t fight it, I would rather people looking back know… Yes, I used this tool - no, it’s not “responsible” for the code, I am.

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@Supercrunchy@programming.dev 2026-11-01 00:18

Same for me, but that’s because I have a rule saying to the claude to not interact with git unless instructed, and I commit manually after reviewing every line of code changed. The bot runs in its own container, isolated from all credentials, so it can’t push commits and can’t access production. I also hate that the super long commit messages, so I just want to write it myself. Basically if you are surrenderinf your entire PC to AI, then you’ll not get those commit messages authored by claude. All my colleagues instead gave it access to the whole work pc including ssh keys, and the bot can do whatever the fuck it wants with the whole repo on github. It co-authors every single commit. Our master branch pushed straight to prod, and is not protected, and all our team is repo admin anyway. It’s complete insanity, bordering criminal negligence.

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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-01 01:53

I have seen commits that were coauthored or something. Maybe the official AI plugin makes github able to sign a commit by two entities?

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