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182182As stated, the objective is to share maintenance and avoid "plugin-abandon".
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187+ AI/LLM-Assisted Contributions Policy
188+ -------------------------------------
189+
190+ We welcome contributions from all developers, including those who use AI/LLM tools
191+ as part of their workflow. However, we have strict requirements to protect the time
192+ and effort of our reviewers:
193+
194+ **Disclosure is mandatory. ** All contributions that involved AI or LLM assistance
195+ (e.g. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools) must be clearly disclosed
196+ in the pull request description. State which tools were used and to what extent.
197+
198+ **Purely agentic contributions are not accepted. ** Pull requests that are entirely
199+ generated by AI agents — with no meaningful human review, understanding, or oversight —
200+ will be closed, and the contributor will be banned. Every contribution must demonstrate
201+ that a human has reviewed, understood, and taken responsibility for the changes.
202+
203+ **Consequences of non-disclosure. ** Failure to disclose AI involvement, or submitting
204+ low-effort AI-generated pull requests that waste reviewer time, will result in a
205+ **public ban ** from the project. Flooding the project with AI-generated PRs is abuse
206+ of the maintainers' volunteer time and will be treated as such.
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208+
209+ Context
210+ ~~~~~~~
211+
212+ With the advent of unsupervised agentic tools like OpenClaw, there has been a rise in low-quality contributions
213+ where an agent goes on a rampage of low-quality pull requests.
214+ Oftentimes this looks like a human beginner with fresh agent access trying to learn,
215+ but in reality it's just an unsupervised agentic tool wasting human time for bad-faith contributions.
216+
217+ With a human we would be more than happy to help and guide them to the right path.
218+ With an agent we are losing human time we never get back.
219+ The promise of AI was to free up human time to focus on more important things like family and friends.
220+
221+ Fully agentic contributions turn that around — there is no human learning or growing behind those bots,
222+ only soulless, semi-functional prompt adherence.
223+
224+ We classify that as evil. Badly guardrailed unsupervised tools that run rampant in open-source projects are not smart;
225+ they are the combination of bad laziness and lack of critical thinking that costs everyone else.
226+
227+ Part of this originates from us having access to coding agents and being painfully aware of the need to correctly prompt and supervise them.
228+ Even modern frontier models repeatedly make grave mistakes when working at framework/tooling level.
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230+ Anyone running those unsupervised and unguarded on open-source projects is demonstrating complete disrespect for actual humans.
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