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AI Tool Use Policy #

Pod welcomes contributions made with AI tools, including agentic development workflows. However, we require a human in the loop for all contributions.

Policy #

  • You are the author. As a contributor, you are fully accountable for your contributions regardless of what tools you used to create them.
  • Review your work. You must carefully read and review all tool-generated code or text before submitting it for review.
  • Be transparent. Note when your contribution contains substantial amounts of tool-generated content.
  • Be prepared. You should be able to answer questions about your work during review.
  • Stay in the loop. Agents may assist with development, but a human must review and approve all actions that affect our shared spaces -- pull requests, issues, comments, and code.

Agents Welcome, With Oversight #

Unlike many projects, we do not prohibit agentic development. AI agents can be powerful collaborators. What we prohibit is unsupervised agent activity in our spaces. Specifically:

  • Agents must not take action in our repositories (opening PRs, commenting on issues, posting reviews) without explicit human review and approval of that specific action.
  • Automated review tools that publish comments without human review are not allowed.
  • A human must be the one to click "submit" -- not a cron job, not a webhook, not a bot.

Rationale #

Processing proposals, issues, PRs, and comments takes maintainer time and energy. Unreviewed tool output shifts effort from the contributor to the reviewer, making it an extractive contribution. The human-in-the-loop requirement ensures that contributors take ownership of their work and that maintainer time is respected.

Handling Violations #

If a maintainer determines that a contribution was submitted without meaningful human oversight, they may request changes, close the PR, or lock the conversation at their discretion.