AI Usage Policy

This policy supplements our Contributing Guide and Code of Conduct.

This project is maintained by volunteers. This policy exists to keep review burden reasonable. The policy is inspired by the Ghostty and LLVM AI policies.

Contributions that violate this policy may be closed without further notice.

Mandatory Disclosure

Every Pull Request that utilizes AI-assisted tooling (including but not limited to Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or local LLMs) must disclose its usage.

PR Description

You must complete the AI-Assistance section in our Pull Request Template.

Human-in-the-Loop

Contributors must fully understand all submitted contributions.

Contributions

• You must be able to explain what your changes do and defend your implementation choices.
• You are expected to have read and understood every line of code you submit.
• If your response to a maintainer's question is an unedited copy-paste from an LLM, or if you cannot explain the mechanics of your PR, the PR will be closed.

Issue Triage and Discussions

You are not allowed to reply to user issues or discussions with unverified or raw AI-generated information.

"Good First Issue" Protections

You may not submit contributions to close a 🌱 good first issue if they were authored with substantial AI assistance. These issues are intentionally triaged as learning opportunities for new developers navigating the codebase for the first time.

Low-Effort Contributions & Prohibition of Autonomous Agents

• Contributions that are overly verbose, contain unsupported or hallucinated claims, or otherwise show the hallmarks of low-effort LLM usage may be closed without further notice.
• Contributions via OpenClaw, or any other unsupervised autonomous agent operating in an automated loop, are strictly prohibited.