vitals/AUTHORS.md
Christian Sass cd6e76c830 docs: record authorship and how to credit it
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