Overview
- The Foundation rolled out formal contribution-policy updates in late June that require all code to be human-authored, forbid autonomous AI agents and large AI-generated submissions, and mandate human approval of every pull request before merging.
- Enforcement measures include automatic GitHub bans for autonomous agent use and rules that block new contributors from submitting major features or refactors without explicit maintainer permission.
- The policy allows only limited AI help for small tasks such as code completion, regex, or find-and-replace and requires contributors to disclose any AI assistance in pull-request discussions while permitting machine translations if the original text was human-written.
- Maintainers said the moves respond to a surge of low-quality, AI-assisted pull requests that increased reviewer workload, demoralized volunteers, and contributed to a large unresolved PR backlog reported by community outlets.
- Godot frames the rules as conservative and reversible, positioning the project as an early open-source test case that could influence how other communities balance generative AI tools with human accountability and contributor training.