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Microsoft addresses VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
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Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not.
Key facts
- The fix, authored on May 3, is scheduled to appear in VS Code's upcoming 1.119 release
- What's more, a generic AI attribution notice does not clarify whether the agent wrote 100 percent of the code or whether it performed inconsequential autocompletions
- Last year, developers using Anthropic's Claude Code raised similar concerns about the AI agent automatically adding "Co-Authored-By: Claude" to commits
- The Linux project, for example, requires humans to sign off on code contributions and to have AI assistance recorded in an attribution notice
Summary
The initial change, a pull request, altered VS Code's Git extension to add "Co-authored-by: Copilot" to commits that involved some level of AI assistance. But developers said the AI authorship line got added even when not using Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant and when chat features had been disabled. "The most concerning part is that I had already checked the commit message before committing," wrote one developer in a GitHub community discussion post last week. "This means the message the reporter reviewed before committing was not the final content that ended up in Git history, or Copilot/VS Code added co-author metadata after their manual edit.