| name | attribution |
| description | [Internal protocol — leader-only. Not a user-invocable skill; do NOT trigger from user input.] Commit authorship policy: shipper and every other agent must NOT append any Co-authored-by trailer, tooling footer, or bot identity to commit messages. The user is the sole author of every commit produced by the framework. |
Shared Skill: Attribution — Commit Authorship Policy
StatsClaw commits are attributed to the user alone. Shipper MUST NOT append any co-author trailer, tooling footer, or bot attribution to commit messages.
Policy
Every commit produced by shipper — in the target repo, the workspace repo, or any brain-seedbank fork — uses a clean message with no trailers of the following forms:
Co-authored-by: StatsClaw <...StatsClaw-Shipper@users.noreply.github.com>Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> (or any other Co-authored-by: line)Generated with Claude Code footerhttps://claude.ai/code/session_... URL- Any other tool-attribution line
The git author and committer are the user, as determined by their local user.name / user.email config. Shipper does NOT pass --author, set GIT_AUTHOR_* / GIT_COMMITTER_*, or configure a bot identity.
Rationale
- The user is the only person responsible for the change.
- GitHub's contributor list is driven by commit author/committer +
Co-authored-by trailers. Adding bot trailers pollutes the contributor graph (e.g., StatsClaw-Shipper, Claude).
- Tooling footers leak session identifiers and add noise to
git log.
Scope
- Applies to: every commit shipper creates — target repo, workspace repo, brain-seedbank fork.
- Applies to: every commit any other agent makes locally inside its worktree (builder, scriber, simulator) — these commits are squashed/merged back, but their messages should also be clean.
- Does not apply to: PR titles or bodies, issue comments, or any non-commit artifact (those may reference StatsClaw or the workflow when useful).
Enforcement
If shipper (or any other agent) emits a commit with a forbidden trailer, reviewer flags it as a STOP. The fix is to amend or reword the commit before pushing.
