The generated AUTHORS.md file contains escape characters for brackets around the handle/email field (see below from mdakithole2 initial commit). The template file doesn't have the backslashes, so I'm not sure why it added them.
+# Authors
+
+mdakithole2 was created by Ian Kenney in 2022.
+
+
+All contributing authors are listed in this file below.
+The repository history at https://github.com/ianmkenney/mdakithole2
+and the CHANGELOG show individual code contributions.
+
+## Chronological list of authors
+
+<!--
+The rules for this file:
+ * Authors are sorted chronologically, earliest to latest
+ * Please format it each entry as "Preferred name <GitHub username>"
+ * Your preferred name is whatever you wish to go by --
+ it does *not* have to be your legal name!
+ * Please start a new section for each new year
+ * Don't ever delete anything
+-->
+
+**2022**
+- Ian Kenney \<@ianmkenney\>
The generated AUTHORS.md file contains escape characters for brackets around the handle/email field (see below from mdakithole2 initial commit). The template file doesn't have the backslashes, so I'm not sure why it added them.