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by MadsRC 2 hours ago
Not really, and neither does the doc it links to. It explains the difference between a personal agent (that acts as you) and a multiplayer agent (that has its own identity).

But they walk all this back by saying that for PRs in GitHub it uses the upstream Claude for GitHub app - that is one installation of a GH app, which means one identity, one list of repos it can access. In the audit logs it will be impossible to see if it was Claude Tag from Channel Y or Claude Tag from channel X.

Arguably that’s a limitation of the abysmal state of machine identities in GH.

Agent identity and attribution continues to be important, but current systems makes it oh so difficult.