Policy for AI Coding Assistants

[Etienne Champetier]

Hi,

Le jeu. 16 avr. 2026 à 19:37, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I think OpenWrt does not have a policy regarding AI Coding Assistants. I
> started using them and I always mentioned it in the commit message.
>
> I am pretty sure others used them too on code contributed to OpenWrt.
>
> I would like to take over the policy from the Linux kernel regarding AI
> Coding Assistants:
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html
>
> I would like to use these rules for OpenWrt:
>   * AI Coding Assistants are tools and can be used
>   * The contributor takes full responsibility for the code generated
>   * The contributor must understand what the code does
>   * It should be mentioned when such tools were used
>   * The AI should not automatically create PRs, the AI could help a
> person doing this.

Contributor must also understand the answer he is giving to reviews /
not just let an AI agent run the interactions

> Hauke