Overview
- The Godot Foundation, which announced the policy update on June 30, 2026, will forbid AI-authored code, block pull requests submitted by autonomous AI agents, and enforce that a human reviews and approves every PR before it is merged.
- Contributors may use AI only for minor, menial tasks like code completion or find-and-replace and must disclose any AI use in PR discussions so maintainers know what was machine-assisted.
- The foundation will reject AI-generated human-to-human text while allowing machine translations of human-written messages, and it says heavy AI users cannot be trusted to take responsibility for or fix their code.
- To protect the project's mentorship pipeline, Godot will stop new contributors with three or fewer approved PRs from submitting new features or major refactors without explicit maintainer permission.
- The move responds to a recent surge in low-effort, AI-assisted 'slop' PRs that overwhelmed a small corps of volunteer reviewers, and the Foundation says it will take a conservative stance now and re-evaluate its rules as AI tools change.