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docs(contributing): remove the AI reply restriction - #1602
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The ban on using AI to reply to Discussions and Issues is not working and scares contributors away. Remove the notice from CONTRIBUTING.md, the contributing guide, and AGENTS.md. Reviewing AI-assisted content before posting it and disclosing it stay. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review and disclosure requirements AGENTS.md, docs/contributing.md, CONTRIBUTING.md |
The guidance permits AI-assisted GitHub content after user review and requires disclosure. It removes prior reply eligibility rules, the ban warning, and the restriction on batch replies. |
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes
Change: Other
Suggested reviewers: greptile-apps
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Minimal · up to cea40
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[Medium impact] This documentation-only PR appears safe to merge. SummaryRemoves AI reply restrictions from the three contributor guides while keeping human review and disclosure requirements.
Reviews (1) · Last reviewed commit: "docs(contributing): remove the AI reply ..." · Reviewed by Greptile |
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No instruction-count regression above 1%. Only instruction counts gate. Wall clock is shown for context — on identical hardware it moves 4-20% run to run. Measured by tak — instruction-counted CLI benchmarks, stored in this repository's git notes. Shadow comparisonParsing
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The rule that restricted who may use AI to reply to Discussions and Issues, backed by a ban across jdx's projects, is not working and scares people away. This removes it from the repo.
Removed:
CONTRIBUTING.md::: dangerblock indocs/contributing.mdAGENTS.mdKept: AI-assisted content is still reviewed by the user before it is posted, and it still carries the
*AI-assisted — Tool: ...*disclosure. The contributing guide now says that using AI to help write a Discussion, Issue, reply, or pull request is fine.The same change is going into the other jdx repos.
AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5; version: 2.1.309.
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Low Risk
Documentation-only policy change with no runtime, auth, or data-handling impact.
Overview
This PR drops the policy that only certain contributors could use AI to reply on GitHub Discussions and Issues, along with the instant-ban language across jdx projects.
Removed from
AGENTS.md,CONTRIBUTING.md, anddocs/contributing.md: eligibility checks (thread author, fixing PR, merged contribution), agent instructions not to post or sweep threads, and the danger/CAUTION callouts.Unchanged expectations: contributors still review AI-assisted GitHub content before posting and append the
*AI-assisted — Tool: …*disclosure. The public contributing guide now states plainly that using AI to help write a Discussion, Issue, reply, or PR is allowed.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit cea400b. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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