Good counterpoint. We link to GitHub from JIRA, and the reverse. Linking to the Claude session that generated the code seems reasonable...it's a related artifact.

One thing I'm not sure about: what is the utility of linking to the session? What are folks expected to do with that data?

for one thing, understanding how the final code ended up that way. it's hard to tell with code alone wherever something is designed or cargo culted.

If _you_ choose to do it, no.

If the tool auto-does it, yes.

You still choose to configure the tool. "It's the default" is only an excuse for the very first time you notice it.

You're missing the pattern of behavior from Anthropic. They constantly market like this: the session link, the Co-Authored by Claude, the unwillingness to adopt AGENTS.md. Hell, on workflows on 2.1.246 Claude's been ignoring the "attribution" block in settings.json and gone right back to coauthoring every commit.

What's the odds on them fixing that bug anytime soon.

But presumably everyone in your company/team is using Jira, so it's not an "ad" because it's a product already used internally. Claude is appending these links to all commits by default, whether or not others on the team use Claude. Those are very different things.