Remove CHANGELOG.md and stop agents from recreating it - #753
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Every recent PR added an entry to the same Unreleased section in CHANGELOG.md. There was no explicit rule telling agents to do this — they were pattern-matching the file's own structure and the git history of prior PRs. With many PRs open in parallel, this guaranteed merge conflicts and reset CI on unrelated branches whenever one PR merged. No CI gate or build script depended on the file's presence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Resolves one conflict: `CHANGELOG.md` was removed on main (#753, "do not create one, and do not add a changelog entry as part of a PR"), so my Added/Fixed entries for this branch are dropped rather than reinstating the file. Everything the entries recorded is in the commit message and the PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I removed CHANGELOG.md because every recent PR added an entry to its shared "Unreleased" section, which guaranteed merge conflicts and reset CI on any other PR open in parallel whenever one merged.
No CI gate or build script depended on the file, and no doc explicitly instructed adding changelog entries — agents were pattern-matching the file's own structure and prior PR history. I added an explicit "Changelog" section to AGENTS.md telling agents not to recreate the file or add entries, so the convention doesn't resurface by imitation.
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