docs: drop the merge-authority line from contributor instructions - #83
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The instruction that merging is the owner's call is stale — the delegation was granted repo-wide and this file never caught up. Records the limit with the grant. Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: sanchpet <petrov@sanch.pet>
This repo is public, so these instructions are read by any contributor's agent, not only the owner's. A line asserting merge rights is wrong for most readers and would send them at a branch they cannot merge; who may merge belongs wherever each contributor's own authority is recorded. Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: sanchpet <petrov@sanch.pet>
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This file told the reader that merging is the owner's call. That was stale for the owner — but replacing it with the opposite claim would be worse, because the repo is public and these instructions are read by any contributor's agent. An agent told "merging is delegated to you" will walk a branch it has no rights to merge, and fail at the protection rule or, worse, assume authority it does not have.
Neither claim belongs here. The file now says branch + PR and stops.
Assisted-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com