OliveTin/AI.md

OliveTin's AI Policy

Runtime:

• The project does not include any AI functionality at runtime.
• No data, usage, or similar is sent to, or analyized by AI.

Development - Contributions

• The project does accept contributions that were written with AI help. However:
  • The contribution must be attributed to a human username who takes responsibility for the code as if they wrote it themselves.
  • AI often generates very unmaintainable code as it gets longer - loads of duplication, very little function re-use amd very poor at following style guides / idiomatic design. All code contributions (AI or not) are scrutinized hard for maintainability and clean merging. Please follow the CONTRIBUTORS guide.
  • AI that helps with short tab completion is generally fine.
  • AI that writes lots of new code across lots of files, or makes lots of superfluous changes is generally less likely to be accepted.
  • Vibe coding is not a suitable way to contribute to this project.
• Contributors should declare when AI has been used to help write contributions in the pull request body message.
• The project uses AI as an optional part of the PR process (coderabbitai). Please raise any concerns about usage within the PR.
  • Suggestions from coderabbitai can be accepted verbaitem, but ideally it should be the PR author that uses coderabbitai as a guide, who then re-writes the contribution.
• Maintainers are the only agents permitted to accept merges.

Development - Build process

• Linters, code review tools, and others which are enabled by AI are allowed, but cannot be added as part of the standard build process.

Community

• Only project admins are allowed to run bots in the community discord server (at the time of writing, the current bot, Japella, is not AI-enabled).
• Support is currently not provided by AI.

Training

• You may use the OliveTin code base, documentation and repositories to train AI, but obviously usernames and personally identifiable information may not be stored.