📜 Make the AI attribution line model-agnostic

[pabloarosado]

Written by Claude Fable 5 — @pabloarosado at the wheel.

Our AGENTS.md is a symlink to CLAUDE.md, so non-Claude agents (e.g. Codex reviewing PRs) also read the attribution rule. The template hardcoded the "Claude" prefix, which led Codex to sign a review comment as "Written by Claude GPT-5.6 Sol" (see #6511).

This PR makes the template model-agnostic: Written by <assistant> <model name>, where the assistant is the product actually generating the content (Claude, Codex, Copilot, ...). It also clarifies that agents posting under their own bot account can skip the line, since the platform already attributes the content.

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Pull request overview

Updates the agent attribution guidance in CLAUDE.md so it works for any AI assistant (not just Claude) and clarifies when the attribution line can be omitted for bot accounts.

Changes:

• Makes the attribution template assistant-agnostic: Written by <assistant> <model name> — @<handle> at the wheel.
• Clarifies that bot accounts (already attributed by the platform) can skip the attribution line.
• Updates the accompanying instruction text to describe both <assistant> and <model name>.

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