bd's embedded Dolt commits are all authored 'root <root@%>' — verified on the sourcehut-artifacts tracker, where all nine memories rendered '· root'. The human actor is recorded only in the commit MESSAGE ('bd: close (auto-commit) by Eugene Blikh'), and not even in every message ('bd: create artifacts-7j8' has none). So any UI or tool that wants to say who wrote something must read the message, not the author field — and the memory view drops the author entirely for that reason (b6a0155).