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- Never add a `Co-authored-by` / `Signed-off-by` trailer for the same identity
that authors the commit — a self co-author is a redundant duplicate. Only
credit a genuinely different human co-author, and only when asked. No AI
co-author trailers in commits either; AI attribution stays only in the PR body.
- Keep the body free of trailers entirely unless explicitly asked for one.
When squash-merging via `gh pr merge --squash`, pass an explicit
`--subject` and an empty `--body ""` so GitHub doesn't re-inject branch
trailers or auto-credit the branch author as a co-author.

## Agent Guardrails

- Never commit or push directly to `main`; all changes land through pull requests.
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