add back update contributors script

[iscekic]

Context

Add back the update-contributors script. We want to highlight the amazing members of our community!

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[iscekic]

I ran the script, this is what it produced: https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode/blob/d490746ff09a4f2e94f60501b7b26b489af3ef9c/README.md#contributing

The contributors are sorted by contributions desc.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR reintroduces the update-contributors script to automatically fetch and display GitHub contributors in the README. The script replaces a previous implementation that fetched data from an external JSON endpoint with a direct GitHub API integration.

Key changes:

• Rewrites scripts/update-contributors.js to use the GitHub API directly instead of fetching from kilo.ai/contributors.json
• Changes from ES modules to CommonJS for consistency with other scripts in the repository
• Adds an npm script update-contributors to package.json for easy execution
• Updates README.md with a new table-based contributor display format (6 columns) and filters out bot accounts

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 7 comments.

File	Description
scripts/update-contributors.js	Complete rewrite of the contributors script using GitHub API, CommonJS modules, and improved error handling
package.json	Adds update-contributors npm script for convenient execution
README.md	Updates contributors section with new auto-generated table format displaying all contributors

[kiloconnect]

✅ No Issues Found

3 files reviewed | Confidence: 90% | Recommendation: Merge

Review Details

Files: scripts/update-contributors.js, package.json, README.md

Checked: Security, bugs, error handling, code quality

Notes:

• Previous Copilot review comments have been addressed or intentionally dismissed by the author
• The Bearer token format is now correct (line 19)
• The script properly handles GitHub API errors with status code checks
• Bot filtering logic correctly excludes [bot] and R00-B0T accounts
• The 100 contributor limit is acceptable per author's decision
• README.md changes are auto-generated content with proper markers

Minor observations (not blocking):

• The updateReadme function returns undefined when markers are missing, but author confirmed this fail-hard behavior is intentional
• No success message is logged after completion, but author confirmed this is acceptable