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AI Usage Policy

Attribution: This policy is adapted from the Delve projects's AI_POLICY.md which was adapted from the Ghostty project's AI_POLICY.md. We are grateful to the Delve and Ghostty maintainers for providing a clear and thoughtful framework for AI usage in open source projects.

The u-root project has strict rules for AI usage:

  • All AI usage in any form must be disclosed. You must state the tool you used (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Amp) along with the extent that the work was AI-assisted. AI tools or models shall not be added as Co-authored-by tags but rather disclosed in free-form.

  • Pull requests created by AI must have been fully verified with human use. AI must not create hypothetically correct code that hasn't been tested. Importantly, you must not allow AI to write code for platforms or environments you don't have access to manually test on.

  • Issues and discussions can use AI assistance but must have a full human-in-the-loop. This means that any content generated with AI must have been reviewed and edited by a human before submission. AI is very good at being overly verbose and including noise that distracts from the main point. Humans must do their research and trim this down.

These rules apply only to outside contributions to u-root. Maintainers are exempt from these rules and may use AI tools at their discretion; they've proven themselves trustworthy to apply good judgment.

There are Humans Here

Please remember that u-root is maintained by humans.

Every discussion, issue, and pull request is read and reviewed by humans (and sometimes machines, too). It is a boundary point at which people interact with each other and the work done. It is rude and disrespectful to approach this boundary with low-effort, unqualified work, since it puts the burden of validation on the maintainer.

In a perfect world, AI would produce high-quality, accurate work every time. But today, that reality depends on the driver of the AI. And today, most drivers of AI are just not good enough. So, until either the people get better, the AI gets better, or both, we have to have strict rules to protect maintainers.

AI is Welcome Here

As a project, we welcome AI as a tool!

Our reason for the AI policy is not due to an anti-AI stance, but instead intended to help produce high quality code and maintain code quality and overall standards when using AI coding assistance. This policy also gives a common framework to use and foster effective open source collaboration in the era of AI Agentic coding.

We, the u-root leadership, include this section to be transparent about the project's usage about AI for people who may disagree with it, and to address the misconception that this policy is anti-AI in nature.