What Went Public, Your Email and Claude's Signature

The link works, and something else went public at the same time. Both of these are a quick fix today and an awkward one later.

Your email address

Every time your work got saved, it got saved with your email address attached. That is part of how the saving works. It records who made the change, and who you are is the address sitting on your machine. Then you pushed all of it to the internet, so the address went with it, and anyone who opens your project page can read it.

GitHub gives you a way out and it takes about a minute.

• https://github.com/settings/emails

In your account settings there is a page for your email addresses, and on it a switch for keeping yours private. With it on, GitHub hands out a stand-in address instead of the real one.

Underneath it there is a second switch. That one blocks any push that would put your real address out there, which catches the mistake for you rather than trusting you to remember.

None of that touches your contribution history. Everything still counts as yours.

Claude's name on your commits

Look down the right-hand side of your project page, at the list of people who worked on it. There are two names. You, and Claude.

Claude Code put that there. Every time it saved your work it signed its own name at the bottom of the save, and GitHub is only reading what it found and showing it back to you.

Think about it before you take it out

Hiding it is not the thing that protects you, and somebody looking properly can usually tell anyway.

What actually costs you is not being able to talk about your own work. If you can open this project and say why the page is laid out the way it is, and what you changed when you did not like what came back, then a second name on the page is not a problem. It is a fact about how the work got done, and it is becoming true of most work.

If you do want it gone

Not on GitHub. Nothing on that site put the name there. The signature comes from a setting inside Claude Code, and Claude Code signs the save on your own machine long before any of it reaches the internet.

You do not have to go hunting for that setting.

Stop adding your name to my commits from now on. Change whatever setting controls that, then commit and push the change for me.

Open the newest save on your project page afterwards and read to the bottom. The signature is gone, and that is how you know it worked.

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