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The contributions for the Github project is quite intriguing: https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP/graphs/contributors

MiguelsPizza | 3 commits | 89++ | 410--

claude | 2 commits | 31,799++ | 0--

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I did some git history re-visioning when I closed sourced the extension for a bit. So these are not super accurate. Claude code did write about 85% of the code though.

How can you figure out that percentage? The commit logs?

More likely a wild guess. The number is also probably higher...

Nice!

I was checking that out too. Looks like claude was co-author on the initial commit, which is like 90%.

https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP/commit/26ec4a75354b1c...

The main author doesn't have a GitHub account or un-linked his account (on purpose or by accident).

Looks like Claude put me down as a co-author with my real name (Alex Nahas) instead of my GitHub handle (MiguelsPizza)

You’re going to see this pattern a lot more in the future.

Claude's contributions graph is interesting. What is going on here? Does Claude Code commit as itself sometimes, but extremely rarely? I don't understand.

https://github.com/claude

If you ask it to commit it'll sign itself as the author.

But then, how are there so few commits in its profile graph? I suppose I may be admitting my ignorance of how public GitHub works, but still curious.

I was guessing Anthropic asked them to turn it off. Though why not also ask to delete the old activity of the person you bought the account from?

Like: https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3

Wow! Now I wonder how many bucks they paid for it.

Because for sure they didn't DMCAed their way to own that account, right? Right?

Whoa.

Oh no it's not done through that account. Seems to be some sort of ephemeral account scoped to the repo.

What's in authour/commit meta is orthogonal to which github.com account you are actually using. Anyone can commit as anyone as long as you have any way to push and if you want better than that you need signed commits. There are no "ephemeral accounts" in play here.

Right, that was my intended meaning of ephemeral accounts.

git require name and email to commit, but there's no cryptography involved there. Maybe GitHub won't green the lawn for unverified third party commits included in pushed commits?

For a little while someone added Claude’s noreply email address to their account, so their profile started appearing alongside private repo commits!

I don’t understand why we are personifying AI. They’re inanimate tools. My commits don’t credit my keyboard.

Might be less personification and more a figure of speech.

That doesn't look right... if you look at the actual commits, they are all from

MiguelsPizza / Alex Nahas

https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP/commits/main/

He rewrote history to hide it?

He admits it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44516104

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