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A filed VS Code issue (#313064) documents how the setting persists invisibly in git history and CI output after the user manually replaces the generated commit text. You can disable it via the "Git Add AI Co Author" setting, but the opt-out default raised legitimate concerns about attribution integrity. Check your recent commits if you updated VS Code this month.
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