AGENTS.md: Align AI attribution policy with Kubernetes community#204
Open
cgwalters wants to merge 1 commit into
Open
AGENTS.md: Align AI attribution policy with Kubernetes community#204cgwalters wants to merge 1 commit into
cgwalters wants to merge 1 commit into
Conversation
Adopt the policy established in kubernetes/community#8918: disclose AI assistance in the PR description rather than via commit trailers. Listing AI tooling as a co-author or using 'Assisted-by' / 'Co-developed-by' trailers is now explicitly prohibited, matching the Kubernetes steering committee's position on AI disclosure. Further rationale: the Assisted-by schema (tool + model name) doesn't capture common multi-agent patterns (planner + executor), and model names alone don't tell reviewers much — the prompt harness and skills matter just as much. Also adds two new guidance sections: - Pull request size: encourage splitting prep commits out separately - Commit messages and text: remind agents that natural language can't be machine-checked, so humans should own the commit message prose Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Pull request overview
Updates AGENTS.md to align this repo’s AI-attribution guidance with the Kubernetes community approach: disclose AI assistance in the PR description (not via commit trailers), and adds additional guidance aimed at improving reviewability and human ownership of prose.
Changes:
- Replaces the prior “Assisted-by” commit-trailer recommendation with a policy to disclose AI assistance in the PR description and explicitly prohibits AI credit trailers.
- Adds guidance encouraging smaller PRs by splitting preparatory work into separately reviewable PRs.
- Adds guidance encouraging humans to author/verify commit-message prose and review other natural-language text for accuracy.
💡 Add Copilot custom instructions for smarter, more guided reviews. Learn how to get started.
| - "I used a LLM to generate just unit tests." | ||
| - "This code was written in part with the assistance of generative AI." | ||
| - "A LLM was used to generate almost all of the code, but I am knowledgeable in this problem domain and reviewed it carefully." | ||
| - "This code is generated, I am only partially knowledgable in this domain." |
| - "This code was written in part with the assistance of generative AI." | ||
| - "A LLM was used to generate almost all of the code, but I am knowledgeable in this problem domain and reviewed it carefully." | ||
| - "This code is generated, I am only partially knowledgable in this domain." | ||
| - "Code is LLM generated; I don't know the progamming language but it did fix the problem." |
Comment on lines
+31
to
+33
| (The closer the commits are to being *entirely* AI, the more likely | ||
| it is that you should submit the PR as a draft, or even file an | ||
| issue first with a proposed design) |
Comment on lines
+54
to
+55
| When responding to review comments (and commenting in general) similarly | ||
| that should be using your own written language by default. |
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Adopt the policy established in kubernetes/community#8918: disclose AI assistance in the PR description rather than via commit trailers. Listing AI tooling as a co-author or using 'Assisted-by' / 'Co-developed-by' trailers is now explicitly prohibited, matching the Kubernetes steering committee's position on AI disclosure.
Further rationale: the Assisted-by schema (tool + model name) doesn't capture common multi-agent patterns (planner + executor), and model names alone don't tell reviewers much — the prompt harness and skills matter just as much.
Also adds two new guidance sections: