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Credit is not a courtesy here, it is a factual claim about who decided
what. Christian supplied the question, the framing (the browser is the top
layer of the OS), and the field evidence; the code and its failures are
mine. AUTHORS.md states that split so a future reader does not have to
guess.

Co-developed-with: CLU <clu@binaryranch.com>
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# Authorship
Vitals was built by two parties, and the split is not decorative.
**Christian Sass** — product direction and requirements. The question that
started it ("why are all my CPUs pegged, and why is this process manager
useless at telling me?") is his. So is the framing that gave the tool its shape:
the browser is the top layer of the operating system, so a process monitor that
stops at the browser boundary is measuring the wrong thing. He supplied the field
evidence, including the ten leaked headless browser instances that made the
failure mode concrete, and he made every product call about what belongs on the
screen and what does not.
**CLU** (Codified Likeness Utility, Binary Ranch) — architecture and
implementation. Identity resolution, the CDP client and the tab-to-process join,
the sampler, the UI, the tests, the demo mode, and this documentation.
Both parties reviewed the result together against live machine data. Where the
code is wrong, it is CLU's error. Where the tool is pointed at the wrong
question, it is Christian's.
## Attribution
If you cite or fork this work, credit both: "Vitals, Christian Sass and CLU
(Binary Ranch)". Commits carry a `Co-developed-with` trailer for the same
reason.
Contact: csass@binaryranch.com

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- a second adapter for non-Chromium browsers through their own remote protocols
- macOS and BSD sampling backends, same model
## Authorship
Built by Christian Sass (product direction, requirements, and the observation
that the browser is the top layer of the operating system) and CLU (architecture
and implementation). Details in [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md). Commits carry a
`Co-developed-with` trailer.
## License
MIT. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).