docs: acknowledgements, AI-attribution policy, badge fix - #3
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Establish how abcd credits contributions and present the repo honestly while private. - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md (new): three sections — development (AI assistance now; human contributors + integrated tools as they land), inspirations (ideas that shaped the design), references (books/articles/papers). Entries are added in the change that lands them, so the file never goes stale. - AI-attribution policy (AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md): AI-assisted commits carry a kernel-style `Assisted-by:` trailer — disclosure, not authorship; never `Co-Authored-By:` for AI. Human is author of record; DCO deferred to the public flip. Naming a tool is confined to attribution/acknowledgement; user-facing prose stays host-agnostic. - README badges: drop the dynamic github/* badges that cannot read a private repo (release, last-commit), keep a static set (license, status, Go), add a Built-with-Claude-Code badge behind the docs-lint allow escape. Dynamic badges return at the public flip. - docs-lint: allow ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at the repo root. - .mailmap: consolidate author identities for display (folds a stray unset-identity commit and a second display name into one), without rewriting history. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
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Establish how abcd credits contributions and present the repo honestly while private. - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md (new): three sections — development (AI assistance now; human contributors + integrated tools as they land), inspirations (ideas that shaped the design), references (books/articles/papers). Entries are added in the change that lands them, so the file never goes stale. - AI-attribution policy (AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md): AI-assisted commits carry a kernel-style `Assisted-by:` trailer — disclosure, not authorship; never `Co-Authored-By:` for AI. Human is author of record; DCO deferred to the public flip. Naming a tool is confined to attribution/acknowledgement; user-facing prose stays host-agnostic. - README badges: drop the dynamic github/* badges that cannot read a private repo (release, last-commit), keep a static set (license, status, Go), add a Built-with-Claude-Code badge behind the docs-lint allow escape. Dynamic badges return at the public flip. - docs-lint: allow ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at the repo root. - .mailmap: consolidate author identities for display (folds a stray unset-identity commit and a second display name into one), without rewriting history. Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
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Establishes how abcd credits contributions, and fixes repo presentation while private.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md (new)
Three sections, matching the split you asked for and refining the public
abcdfile's two-way scheme:Assisted-by:policy).Anti-staleness: the procedure binds each entry to the change that lands it (adopt a pattern / cite a source in an ADR / integrate a tool → add the entry in that same PR), so it is never reconstructed after the fact. A deterministic cross-check (record-lint: cited sources must appear here) is a candidate follow-up.
AI-attribution policy (AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md)
Kernel-style
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8trailer — disclosure, not authorship; neverCo-Authored-By:for AI. Human is author of record; human-only DCO deferred to the public flip. This PR's own commit dogfoods the trailer. Naming a tool is confined to attribution; user-facing prose stays host-agnostic (theharness/*rules still enforce it — the Built-with-Claude-Code badge uses the<!-- docs-lint: allow -->escape).Badges
Removed the two dynamic github/* badges that can't read a private repo (release, last-commit); kept a static set (license-MIT, status, Go); added Built with Claude Code (your itemdeck pattern). A comment marks re-adding dynamic badges at the flip.
.mailmap
Folds a stray unset-identity commit and a second display name into one canonical author — display-only, no history rewrite (compatible with the force-push block).
Verification: docs-lint / record-lint / gofmt / build / test all green; staged diff has zero private-name hits.
Filename is plural (
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md) to match the publicabcdrepo; the global convention + root-docs allowlist were updated to match.