# Contributors

* Aditya Chhabra <aditya.chhabra@cleverthis.com>
* Brent E. Edwards <brent.edwards@cleverthis.com>
* HAL 9000 <hal9000@cleverthis.com>
* Hamza Khyari <hamza.khyari@cleverthis.com>
* Jeffrey Phillips Freeman <jeffrey.freeman@syncleus.com>
* Luis Mendes <luis.p.mendes@gmail.com>
* Rui Hu <rui.hu@cleverthis.com>

# Details

Below are some of the specific details of various contributions.

* Jeffrey Phillips Freeman has acted as Lead Developer, daily contributor, and Project Owner.
* Brent E. Edwards has contributed quality assurance, test coverage, and CI pipeline improvements.
* HAL 9000 has contributed automated implementation, bug fixes, and feature development as part of the CleverAgents automation pool.
* HAL 9000 has contributed concurrency safety improvements, including thread-safe context tier management (issue #7547) for parallel plan execution.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the plan concurrency race-condition fix (#7989): wired `LockService` into the plan lifecycle, guarding `execute_plan()` and `apply_plan()` with plan-level advisory locks and unique per-invocation owner identities to prevent silent concurrent state corruption.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the bug-hunt-pool-supervisor non-blocking tracking fix: updated step 5 to be best-effort and added rule 9 to prevent the automation-tracking-manager call from blocking the main supervisor loop.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the plugin entry point security hardening fix (#7476): enforced entry point allowlist validation before importing plugin modules to prevent malicious plugin loading.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the benchmark workflow separation (#9040): moved the benchmark-regression job out of the default PR workflow into a dedicated scheduled workflow, reducing median PR CI turnaround time from 99-132 minutes to under 30 minutes.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the agent-evolution-pool-supervisor PR metadata assignment (#7888): the supervisor now automatically looks up the Type/Automation label and earliest open milestone before dispatching improvement PR creation workers, ensuring all generated improvement PRs have correct Type labels and milestone assignments.
* This project was made possible thanks to considerable donation of time, money, and resources by CleverThis, Inc.
* HAL 9000 has contributed automated bug fixes, CLI output formatting improvements, and ongoing maintenance as part of the CleverAgents automation system.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the file edit encoding parameter fix (PR #8258 / issue #7559).
<<* HAL 9000 has contributed the architecture-pool-supervisor milestone assignment feature (PR #8188 / issue #7521): added `forgejo_update_pull_request` permission and documented the PR workflow for major spec changes, enabling automatic milestone assignment for specification PRs.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the git worktree TOCTOU race condition fix (PR #8178 / issue #7507): replaced the unsafe mkdtemp() + rmdir() pattern with a parent-directory approach to eliminate the race window in concurrent git worktree operations.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the git_tools TOCTOU race condition fix (PR #8255 / issue #7619): eliminated the Time-Of-Check-To-Time-Of-Use race in `_get_base_env()` by adding double-checked locking with a module-level `threading.Lock`, preventing concurrent threads from writing conflicting environment snapshots.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the mandatory PR compliance checklist to `implementation-supervisor.md` (#9824): added an 8-item checklist to the worker prompt body with concrete items covering CHANGELOG.md, CONTRIBUTORS.md, commit footer, CI verification, BDD tests, Epic reference, labels, and milestone assignment to eliminate systemic PR merge blockers.
* HAL 9000 has contributed comprehensive milestone documentation for v3.6.0 (Advanced Concepts & Deferred Features) and v3.7.0 (TUI Implementation) (PR #9903): split into sub-documents covering context strategies, LLM backends, resource types, A2A rename, container tool execution, scope chain resolution, cost/safety budgets, E2E workflow tests, code review examples, plugin architecture, TUI layout, persona system, reference/command input, session management, configuration, and TuiMaterializer integration.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the LLMTraceRepository data-integrity fix (PR #8185 / issue #7505): replaced the unconditional `session.commit()` in `LLMTraceRepository.save()` with a dual-path implementation that respects the UnitOfWork pattern — flushing only when an external session is provided, and flushing + committing + closing when operating standalone. This eliminates premature transaction commits, loss of rollback capability, and a docstring/implementation mismatch.
* HAL 9000 has contributed the ACMS Index Data Model and File Traversal Engine (PR #9664 / issue #9579): foundational data structures for indexed context entries with hot/warm/cold/archive storage tier classification, tag system, and a timeout-safe chunked file traversal engine for large projects with 10,000+ files.
