Ripgrep AI Policy

The open-source project Ripgrep has adopted a policy requiring human oversight for all AI-assisted code contributions, banning autonomous agents from submitting pull requests. Contributors must be able to explain their work in their own words and cannot use AI to generate comments when communicating with maintainers, though AI can be used for translation with proper disclosure. The policy aims to ensure accountability and maintain code quality by requiring a human in the loop who understands any AI-produced work.

Using AI i.e., LLMs as tools for coding is welcome. A high bar is held for all contributions to this project. Moreover, the project maintainers remain responsible for any code that is published as part of a release. Contributors are expected to be responsible for any code they publish. AI should not be used to generate comments when communicating with maintainers . Comments are expected to be written by humans. Comments that are believed to be written by AI may be hidden without notice. If you are opening an issue, you should be able to describe the problem in your own words. If you are opening a pull request, you are expected to be able to explain the proposed changes in your own words. This includes the pull request body and responses to questions. Do not copy responses from the AI when replying to questions from maintainers. This project requires a human in the loop who understands the work produced by AI. Autonomous agents are not allowed to be used for contributing to this project . Pull requests that appear in violation of this will be closed, perhaps without notice. 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. Do not share long snippets. 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. If using AI for translation, we recommend writing in your native language and including the AI translation in a quote block. This policy was adapted from uv's AI policy https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/blob/c5187e200db51bfe11d56e13053d29bd3793fdd8/AI POLICY.md .