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Even << "co-design" like "stuff that was designed to work together" >> sound strange to me. Typically when I read about co-design is stuff that was designed together, by more than 1 party.

Me too. Good style says to avoid creating words with dashes - it’s Un-American. But clarity matters more than rules.

Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.

Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?

Mostly yes, and I prefer it that way, but it does get smashed into a single word sometimes. "co-design" I've mostly only seen hyphenated, though I don't see it often enough or in broad enough contexts to really claim anything about the frequency in a general sense.

Maybe it's caused by `codesign` tools? Like `codesign --extreme` which probably requires two signers to sign one thing?

same I was so confused