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CONTRIBUTING: limit AI assistance to code only 

I think at this point all moderators and helpers can agree with me in
that LLM-generated responses are a blight upon this Earth.

Also probably worth putting in a clause against AI-generated assets
(cf. the Commit Goods situation)
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@ -23,8 +23,38 @@ it, please check out our ["Developing Ghostty"](HACKING.md) document as well.
If you are using any kind of AI assistance while contributing to Ghostty,
**this must be disclosed in the pull request**, along with the extent to
which AI assistance was used (e.g. docs only vs. code generation).
As a small exception, trivial tab-completion doesn't need to be disclosed,
so long as it is limited to single keywords or short phrases.
**We currently restrict AI assistance to code changes only.**
No AI-generated media, e.g. artwork, icons, videos and other assets is
allowed, as it goes against the methodology and ethos behind Ghostty.
While AI-assisted code can help with productive prototyping, creative
inspiration and even automated bugfinding, we have currently found zero
benefit to AI-generated assets. Instead, we are far more interested and
invested in funding professional work done by human designers and artists.
If you intend to submit AI-generated assets to Ghostty, sorry,
**we are not interested**.
Likewise, all community interactions, including all comments on issues and
discussions and all PR titles and descriptions **must be composed by a human**.
Community moderators and Ghostty maintainers reserve the right to mark
AI-generated responses as spam or disruptive content, and ban users who have
been repeatedly caught relying entirely on LLMs during interactions.
> [!NOTE]
> If your English isn't the best and you are currently relying on an LLM to
> translate your responses, don't fret — usually we maintainers will be able
> to understand your messages well enough. We'd like to encourage real humans
> to interact with each other more, and the positive impact of genuine,
> responsive yet imperfect human interaction more than makes up for any
> language barrier.
>
> Please write your responses yourself, to the best of your ability.
> We greatly appreciate it. Thank you. ❤️
Minor exceptions to this policy include trivial AI-generated tab completion
functionality, as it usually does not impact the quality of the code and
do not need to be disclosed, and commit titles and messages, which are often
generated by AI coding agents.
The submitter must have also tested the pull request on all impacted
platforms, and it's **highly discouraged** to code for an unfamiliar platform
@ -32,11 +62,6 @@ with AI assistance alone: if you only have a macOS machine, do **not** ask AI
to write the equivalent GTK code, and vice versa — someone else with more
expertise will eventually get to it and do it for you.
Even though using AI to generate responses on a PR is allowed when properly
disclosed, **we do not encourage you to do so**. Often, the positive impact
of genuine, responsive human interaction more than makes up for any language
barrier. ❤️
An example disclosure:
> This PR was written primarily by Claude Code.