Commit as yourself · Quickstart

In the Claude app, Claude's cloud machine commits as Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> unless you say otherwise. Those commits aren't credited to you and don't show on your GitHub profile. One sentence fixes it.

Same work, same message. Only the author changes, and with it, who gets the credit.

Get your noreply email

It looks like ID+your-username@users.noreply.github.com. You copied it in Create your GitHub account. It's on GitHub under Settings → Emails. It credits you without putting your real email in your site's public history.

Tell the agent

App path

Say this

In your-username/your-repo, set git user.name to "Your Name" and user.email to "your-noreply-email", and commit as me from now on. Add this rule to a CLAUDE.md file at the root of that repo (create it if needed) so every session follows it: Commit as Your Name <your-noreply-email>. Before your first commit in each session, set git user.name and user.email to these in this repo. Then commit and push to main.

Each session starts on a fresh machine, so the setting is gone next time. Claude reads CLAUDE.md at the start of every session, so the rule brings it back.

VS Code path

The agent commits with your computer's git identity. Set it once, and it applies to every repo on this computer:

Say this

Set my global git name to "Your Name" and email to "your-noreply-email".

The name is what your commits show, usually your full name. It doesn't have to match your GitHub username.

If it goes wrong

My older commits still say Claude

The setting changes only new commits. Leave the old ones as they are.

My name shows on the commit, but not on my profile

Check three things: the email is your noreply address exactly, the repo isn't a fork, and the commit is on main. Then allow up to 24 hours.

What the agent runs for you

# App path: this repo only (the machine is fresh each session)
git config user.name "Your Name"
git config user.email "your-noreply-email"

# VS Code path: every repo on your computer
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your-noreply-email"

# Who wrote the last commit?
git log -1 --format="%an <%ae>"