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8/ new question: agents hold github credentials now. should they star? lots of READMEs ask for a star (caveman’s: “star cost zero. fair trade”). when the “reader” is an agent with a gh token, a README is a prompt. documentation converts its own reader! Cool! But a diff signal 9/ star velocity now measures reach through one dense mixed attention network, human and agent where’s the new signal? contributor retention, forks that receive commits, mentions in other people’s repos, registry downloads net of mirrors, social love. slow and $$$ to fake/prompt