Btw I have proposed something more generic and NuttX tailored to be added to the Contirbuting Guide in the discussion theead.. this also explains our stance and contains all remarks from the Matplotlib's version but we can use that one as well :-)
The AGENTS.md is a file to be read and instruct potential AI agents not humans. So we can create a dedicated intructions for the AI over there just like Linguini suggested it seems official approved and widely used approach :-) 1.18. AI and Agents. 1.18.1. We expect authentic engagement in our community. NuttX comes from years of hard work, passion, and personal dedication of individuals from around the world. We welcome and respect people with similar mindset. But we do not tolerate shortcuts and we have clearly defined enemies (see The Inviolable Principles of NuttX). 1.18.2. AI tools may do some of the work parts for you but it will not think for you. Treat them as your helpers but only in tasks which you already have experience so you can understand, verify, and explain the results details to anyone else on your own. We use tools to save our precious time. Without prior experience and perfect understanding the outcome is quite opposite - everyone's time is wasted - and we want to avoid that. 1.18.3. Using AI tools for your internal work like brainstorming, prototyping, finding information and examples, text correction, verification against contributing guidelines and code formatting, is fine, but the final submission shared with the project must be result of your own work and intellect. This effort makes us grow, develop individual skills, and provides experience necessary for top quality results. 1.18.4. Using AI tools to generate a code, git commits, pull requests, or any communication channel messages, even with minor edits to pretend it's your own work, is unacceptable. This contradicts the Apache Software Foundation contribution rules [citation_needed]. This also imposes serious copyright and licensing infringement risks because very often AI generated content is copyrighted by the AI owner even if you created the result. If this is your first or following contribution you will be banned. 1.18.5. We reserve right to ban/block/remove user accounts that are considered malicious/spam/bot/ai activity that break any of the presented rules. 1.18.6. The only exception here is for our own internal and approved testing or automation tools that may, but usually do not, have some sort of reporting autonomy, that we have created ourselves in accordance with presented rules. -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM Sebastien Lorquet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > I fully support this policy including the strong restriction in the > final paragraph. > > If you just assert vague advice, it will be considered optional and > never applied. > > Sebastien > > > Le 23/02/2026 à 16:28, Matteo Golin a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > > > > Following the discussion thread on this topic [1], I am starting a vote to > > adopt the Matplotlib AI use policy [2] in NuttX. > > > > The proposal is to include the policy verbatim in the contributing guide > > under the new header "Restrictions on Generative AI usage". I have changed > > "our discourse server" to "our mailing list/forums" in order to match the > > methods NuttX uses for communication. > > > > The policy is copy-pasted below with that change: > > > > """ > > > > We expect authentic engagement in our community. > > > > - > > > > Do not post output from Large Language Models or similar generative AI > > as comments on GitHub or our mailing list/forums, as such comments tend > > to > > be formulaic and low content. > > - > > > > If you use generative AI tools as an aid in developing code or > > documentation changes, ensure that you fully understand the proposed > > changes and can explain why they are the correct approach. > > > > Make sure you have added value based on your personal competency to your > > contributions. Just taking some input, feeding it to an AI and posting the > > result is not of value to the project. To preserve precious core developer > > capacity, we reserve the right to rigorously reject seemingly AI generated > > low-value contributions. > > > > In particular, it is also strictly forbidden to post AI generated content > > to issues or PRs via automated tooling such as bots or agents. We may ban > > such users and/or report them to GitHub. > > """ > > > > Best, > > Matteo > > > > [1]: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14336.html > > [2]: > > https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/contribute.html#restrictions-on-generative-ai-usage > >
