Angelica/AI_POLICY.md

# AI Usage Policy

🌐 **Languages:** [English](AI_POLICY.md) | [Українська](AI_POLICY_uk.md)

This project has strict rules for AI usage:

* **The human-in-the-loop must fully understand all code.** If you
can't explain what your changes do and how they interact with the
greater system without the aid of AI tools, do not contribute
those changes.

* **Issues and discussions can use AI assistance but must have a full
human-in-the-loop.** This means that any content generated with AI
must have been reviewed *and edited* by a human before submission.
The author must do their research and trim this down.

* **No AI-generated media is allowed (textures, videos, audio, etc.).**
Text and code are the only acceptable AI-generated content, per the
other rules in this policy.

* **Commit messages, PR descriptions must read in your own voice.**
No AI-authored or AI co-authored commits, including Co-authored-by AI tags.

* **Only contribute fixes for bugs you have personally hit in-game.**
If you haven’t experienced or reproduced a bug firsthand, and don’t
already know the relevant code well, don’t throw AI at it and forward it to us.
Patches written for problems the author never actually experienced themselves
tend to fix the wrong thing and/or produce another.

* **The voice and intent of written content must be yours.**
For documentation and especially quests, the tone and the point you're trying to make
has to come from you, not an AI. Use AI to help with phrasing or cleanup if you like,
but if the substance and voice aren't yours, don't contribute it.

* **Bad AI use may be blocked.** People who produce bad contributions
that are clearly AI (slop) may be blocked from making future contributions.
We love to help junior developers learn and grow, but if you're interested
in that, don't use AI and we'll help you. We're sorry that bad AI
users have ruined this for you.


## There are Humans Here

Please remember that this project is maintained by humans.

Every discussion, issue, and pull request is read and reviewed by
humans (and sometimes machines, too). It is a boundary point at which
people interact with each other and work is done. It is rude and
disrespectful to approach this boundary with low-effort, unqualified
work, since it puts the burden of validation on the maintainer.

In a perfect world, AI would produce high-quality, accurate work
every time. But today, that reality depends on the user of the AI.
And today, many users of AI do not use it well. So, until that
changes, we need to have strict rules to protect maintainers.

Based on https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md