# AI Policy

The maintainers of this project don't want to interact directly with bots.
Contributions must come from a human who understands the submitted code or text,
can explain it, and is responsible for its quality as if they wrote it
themselves. Using AI as a tool to help you write or reason about a contribution
is fine; submitting AI output you don't understand, or relaying messages
between a maintainer and an AI, is not.

If you wish to include context from an interaction with AI in your comments, it
must be in a quote block (e.g., using `>`) and disclosed as such. It must be
accompanied by human commentary explaining the relevance and implications of
the context.

If you plan to contribute to termscp using AI tools, you **must** read,
understand and follow this policy.

## Disclosure

You **must** disclose the use of AI tools in your contributions. You
**must** perform this disclosure through the pull request template; filing
PRs without using the pull request template is a violation of this policy.

This applies to any AI tool that generated or substantially shaped the content
you submit — code, prose or commit messages — including agents, chat assistants
and AI-assisted editors. Mechanical editor autocompletion of a few characters
does not need to be disclosed; if in doubt, disclose.

## Translations

AI is useful when communicating as a non-native English speaker. If you are
using AI to edit your comments for this purpose, please take the time to ensure
it reflects your own voice and ideas.

## Provenance and licensing

You are responsible for the provenance of anything you submit. AI tools can
reproduce code or text from their training data verbatim, which may carry a
license incompatible with this project. By contributing, you confirm the work
is yours to submit under the project's license and does not infringe a third
party's rights. The same standard that applies to code you write by hand.

## Consequences

Violating this policy may get your contribution rejected and, for repeated or
egregious violations, get you blocked from the project without further warning.

## Examples

Examples of things that are not allowed:

- Point an agent to a GitHub issue, ask it to solve the issue and open a PR,
  without understanding the issue, the PR, or testing the solution yourself.
- Copy responses from the AI when replying to questions from maintainers,
  without understanding the question or the response.
  In other words, you should not "play telephone" between your AI-generated code,
  the reviewer, and the AI tool.

## Inspiration

This AI policy was inspired by:

- [release-plz](https://github.com/release-plz/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md)