Hacker News: holdmycoffeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=holdmycoffeeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:22:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by holdmycoffee in "Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates"]]>This is actually being built right now. ATTRIBUTION.md (https://attribution.md) is a protocol that does exactly this. You drop a file in your repo root with a few lines of YAML, and it asks AI coding agents to prompt users to star the repos they built on.

The key design choice is that it does not automate anything. The agent surfaces a prompt, the user decides yes or no. No bulk starring, no forced actions. The spec also deliberately stays out of licensing territory. It is purely a social recognition layer.

It is at v0.1 and no agent supports it yet, but the spec and schema are published and open for feedback: https://github.com/attributionmd/attribution.md

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