Rodion Kazennov reports that between 27 September and 2 October he sent fixes, bug reports and comments to twelve open-source projects with a coding agent doing much of the work, then read the contribution rules of 30 repositories to see how they treat AI-assisted contributions. He found 19 of the 30 had a rule about AI and 14 of those rules appeared in 2026, most make the submitter responsible for the change, 15 require contributors to disclose AI use, ten require a human to write the description, comments or commit message, and the commit trailer coding agents add by default is required by some projects and banned by others. He contrasts examples such as spec-kit, which wants the agent, model, settings and extent of help named in every AI-generated comment, and MLX, whose pull request template states it is strictly prohibited to use AI to write the PR description.
What 30 open-source projects ask of AI-assisted contributions
Rodion Kazennov reports that between 27 September and 2 October he sent fixes, bug reports and comments to twelve open-source projects with a coding agent doing much of the work, then read the contribution rules of 30 repositories to see how they treat AI-assisted contributions. He found 19 of the 30 had a rule about AI and 14 of those rules appeared in 2026, most make the submitter responsible for the change, 15 require contributors to disclose AI use, ten require a human to write the description, comments or commit message, and the commit trailer coding agents add by default is required by some projects and banned by others. He contrasts examples such as spec-kit, which wants the agent, model, settings and extent of help named in every AI-generated comment, and MLX, whose pull request template states it is strictly prohibited to use AI to write the PR description.
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