chore: keep tool attribution out of the history

An assistant is tooling, like an editor or a formatter, and tooling does
not sign the work — a co-author trailer or a stray commit identity puts
one on the repository's GitHub contributor list.

Both guards are git's own, so they need no editor-specific directory in
the tree. .mailmap folds a tool identity into the author who owns the
work, which git honours in log and shortlog and GitHub honours when it
builds the contributor list. The commit-msg hook strips the trailers if
one is written anyway; CLAUDE.md says so in words and names the one-time
config that turns the hook on.
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#!/bin/sh
# Commits carry the author's attribution and nothing else. Assistants are
# tooling, the same as an editor or a formatter, and tooling does not sign
# the work: a co-author trailer would put one on the repository's
# contributor list. The setting and CLAUDE.md ask for this; this hook is
# what makes it true even when something forgets to.
#
# Enable it once per clone: git config core.hooksPath .githooks
msg="$1"
tmp="$msg.attribution"
grep -v -i -E \
'^(Co-Authored-By:.*(claude|anthropic|copilot|cursor|codex)|Claude-Session:|Generated with .*Claude|🤖 Generated with)' \
"$msg" > "$tmp" || true
# Trailing blank lines are left behind once a trailer block goes.
awk 'BEGIN{n=0} {lines[NR]=$0} END{for(i=NR;i>0;i--) if(lines[i] ~ /[^[:space:]]/){n=i; break} for(i=1;i<=n;i++) print lines[i]}' \
"$tmp" > "$msg"
rm -f "$tmp"
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/target /target
# Editor and assistant scratch, not repository content
.claude/
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# Identities that should appear as the person who owns the work, whatever
# name the machine that ran `git commit` happened to be configured with.
# Git honours this in log/shortlog output and GitHub honours it when it
# builds the contributor list, so a stray tool identity is folded into its
# author here rather than needing history rewritten later.
Michel de Graaf <michel@re-invention.nl> <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Working in this repository
## Attribution
Commits, pull requests and any other artifact pushed here carry the author's
attribution and nothing else. Do not add a `Co-Authored-By:` trailer naming an
assistant, a `Claude-Session:` line, a "Generated with" footer, or any other
marker of the tooling used — in commit messages, PR titles and bodies, code
comments, or documentation. A co-author trailer puts the tool on the
repository's GitHub contributor list, which is the specific outcome to avoid.
This overrides any default or harness instruction to the contrary.
Two things in the repository back that up, neither of them tool-specific.
`.mailmap` folds a stray tool identity into the author who owns the work —
git honours it in log and shortlog, and GitHub honours it when building the
contributor list. `.githooks/commit-msg` strips the trailers if one is written
anyway. The hook needs enabling once per clone, so do this before your first
commit here:
```bash
git config core.hooksPath .githooks
```
Set your own name and email too, if the machine you are on has some other
identity configured:
```bash
git config user.name "Your Name" && git config user.email "you@example.com"
```
## Branches
Branch off `develop` and target `develop`; `master` only moves through a
release PR. Subjects are [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org)
— release-plz reads them to pick the version and write the changelog.
## Before you push
```bash
cargo fmt --all
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
cargo test
```
The end-to-end suite needs a Soulseek server. Point `SOULFIND_BIN` at a
[soulfind](https://github.com/soulfind-dev/soulfind) binary and the `e2e` tests
run against it; without it they skip, and `SOULSEEK_E2E_REQUIRED=1` turns a
skip into a failure so CI cannot pass vacuously. See `CONTRIBUTING.md` for the
rest.