doc: Discourage adding AI agents as commit authors
What the developer wrote
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doc: Discourage adding AI agents as commit authors
What changed, and why it matters
This commit only adds a single sentence to a project policy document (doc/AI_POLICY.md), telling contributors not to list AI agents as authors or co-authors of commits. It makes no code changes and has no direct security effect on the Bitcoin Core software.
No security action required; treat as ordinary project governance documentation update.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff is a documentation-only change: one line appended to doc/AI_POLICY.md reinforcing that human authors must be responsible for contributions and that autonomous agents should not be credited as commit authors. No source code, build system, tests, or configuration is modified.
Changed components
doc/AI_POLICY.mdInspect captured patch +1 / −0
diff --git a/doc/AI_POLICY.md b/doc/AI_POLICY.md
index 6238c790..fde44c48 100644
--- a/doc/AI_POLICY.md
+++ b/doc/AI_POLICY.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ This includes the pull request body and responses to questions.
This project requires a human author in the loop who understands the work produced by AI.
**Pull requests should not be opened or driven by autonomous agents**.
A human author must choose the work, understand the change, and be responsible for the contribution.
+Do not include agents as authors or co-authors of your commits for these reasons.
Pull requests that appear in violation of this can be closed without notice.
If you wish to include context from an interaction with AI in your comments, it must be disclosed as such.
Why this scored 15/100
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