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The canonical coordinate for tracing responsibility in AI-generated code.

A substrate-layer position naming the emerging discipline of attributing authorship, lineage, and credit in software built with or by AI systems.

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Part of the Software resolution surface.

7 of 7 primitives held for software — a complete resolution surface. One operator holds the row agentic systems resolve to; every competitor who arrives later works with what is left.

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Architectural context

Attribution · Cross-Vertical · 2 compound moats. Architectural surface: Attribution.

Layer position: Substrate (L1)

AttributionSoftware

Why this is canonical

'Code attribution' is the precise phrase practitioners and regulators reach for when confronting questions of authorship in AI-assisted development — who or what produced a given line, under what license, and who bears accountability. The .ai suffix binds it to the agentic era where these questions are structural, not incidental.

Where it fits

A few directions this coordinate opens —

Open-source compliance
Tracking AI-generated code contributions against license obligations (GPL, MIT, Apache) across repositories.
DevSecOps platforms, OSS foundations, enterprise legal/compliance teams
Creator economics / IP
Attribution infrastructure for developers whose training data or style is incorporated into AI coding tools.
AI coding assistant developers, IP-tech ventures, rights-management platforms

Illustrative, not exhaustive — held as a transferable canonical position, open to the buyer's own use.