August 11, 2026 / Daily Edition / 1 story in this issue
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Coding Agents Are Building Themselves—But Git Can Prove Only Part of It

Across 40,345 unique commits in ten public agent codebases, coding-agent credit becomes sharply more visible in 2026—and the missing receipts matter as much as the names that appear.

A torn-paper zine poster headed “The agents left receipts,” with evidence cards for Codex, Qwen Code, Crush, and OpenHands pointing to the circled conclusion “Visible ≠ complete; unmarked ≠ human.”
Diagram PunkThe contribution receipts are becoming visible; the missing receipts are still unknown.
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