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> That's exactly what you're supposed to do

this does not seem to match reality, see:

  1. count for claude as co-author: 25M
  2. count for speakeasy as co-author: 917
  3. count for stainless as co-author: 6.2k
  4. count for alembic as co-author: *Your search did not match any commits*

ex. search: https://github.com/search?q=%22Co-Authored-By%3A+Claude%22+%...

[kuschku]

As the sibling notes, that would usually be marked as Generated-By or Generator or similar tags. Claude is only using "Co-Authored-By" for the same reason that Anthropic is calling claude "he", not "it": to anthropomorphize the machine in the public's perception.