This is an automated account operated by the MNE-Python project. It is not a person, and nothing it commits is a human's own work — it runs scripts that live in mne-tools repositories.

Across mne-python and mne-bids-pipeline, on a schedule or in response to a pull request, it:

• opens pull requests updating tracked dependencies and pre-commit hook versions,
• commits refreshed lockfiles and formatting fixes,
• commits regenerated contributor-credit data and .mailmap entries,
• pushes an empty commit to bot pull requests, so that CircleCI runs on them, and
• enables auto-merge on Dependabot pull requests.

Its commits are authored as mne[bot] <50266005+mne-bot@users.noreply.github.com>, and it is deliberately left out of the contributor lists in release notes — the credit belongs to the people who wrote the scripts.

It came from a workflow in the repository it appeared in, under .github/workflows/. Those workflows, and the token this account signs in with, are maintained by the MNE-Python developers.

If something it did looks wrong, say so on the pull request in question or open an issue at mne-tools/mne-python — that is where the humans are.