diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87315e1..fda2ac9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ What shipped, in plain words. Entries below v0.1.3 were written on 2026-09-05 fr
 release notes that already existed — the file itself did not exist until then, so those three are
 recorded after the fact rather than backdated to look contemporaneous.
 
+## Unreleased
+
+**Credit where it is due.** The MCP server that ships as `sgm-mcp` was written by Vardhman Gupta
+([@Kaap10](https://github.com/Kaap10)) in PR #8: the server, its tests and its docs. His
+follow-up fixes are the shared answer-file race (commit 3ce7061), the stdout fallback (PR #10)
+and the swallowed read errors (PR #14).
+He is now listed in the `authors` field of `pyproject.toml`, which is the attribution he asked for.
+
 ## bench-v0.1 — 2026-10-09
 
 **A benchmark other people can run.** Until now every retrieval number in this repo came from
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6863b6d..9c42f14 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ description = "Associative memory for LLM agents: Graph RAG over a folder of mar
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
-authors = [{ name = "Anton Dziatkovskii" }]
+authors = [
+  { name = "Anton Dziatkovskii" },
+  { name = "Vardhman Gupta" },
+]
 keywords = [
   "graph-rag",
   "agent-memory",