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AI-assisted contributions
AI-assisted work is welcome when a responsible human or legal entity takes responsibility for the contribution and has authority to submit it.
The human contributor must review every material change, understand its behavior, investigate provenance appropriate to the risk, run appropriate tests, disclose material AI assistance in the change description, and personally make the DCO certification. The project does not accept an AI system as its contributor, reviewer, signatory, or maintainer. This is an intake rule, not a general legal conclusion about authorship in every jurisdiction.
Do not submit generated text or code whose license or training-source reproduction is reasonably in doubt. Security-sensitive, cryptographic, licensing, governance, and release changes require meaningful human review beyond accepting tool output. Maintainers may request prompts, intermediate rationale, or a narrower independently rewritten change when provenance or comprehension is unclear.
Do not disclose secrets, personal data, employer-confidential material, or third-party confidential prompts to satisfy a review request. A contributor may instead provide a human-written provenance summary or withdraw the contribution.
For emitted compiler scaffolding, the responsible contributor must also have authority to grant and record the Himesan-Output-Permission: v1.0 trailer required by CONTRIBUTING.md. Human or AI review cannot substitute for that rights grant.