AI Usage Policy

ESLint welcomes contributions from everyone, including those created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. We believe AI can be a powerful tool for improving software and want to encourage its responsible use in our project.

To ensure that AI contributions are integrated smoothly and maintain the quality of the codebase, we have established the following guidelines:

Disclosure

If you use AI to generate an issue or a pull request, you must clearly disclose this in your submission. This helps maintainers understand the context of the contribution and perform appropriate reviews.

Issues and pull requests that do not disclose the use of AI may be closed without review. Those who violate this policy repeatedly may be blocked from contributing to ESLint.

Human Responsibility

While AI can assist in generating code or text, the ultimate responsibility for the contribution remains with the human submitter.

• Review your work: Before submitting a pull request generated by AI, you are expected to have thoroughly reviewed and tested the code yourself. Ensure it meets ESLint’s coding standards and correctly addresses the issue.
• Human responses: When maintainers provide feedback or ask questions on your submission, we expect a human to respond. Please do not feed maintainer comments back into an AI to generate responses. We value human interaction and technical discussion.
• Edit for readability: AI-generated content must be edited to make it easy for maintainers to review. This includes trimming unnecessary content, improving formatting, and ensuring that the contribution is clear and concise. PRs and issues that are difficult to review due to AI-generated content may be closed without review.

Pull Request Acceptance Criteria

To help manage the volume of contributions, we have a specific policy for AI-generated pull requests:

• Accepted Issues Only: AI-generated PRs will only be considered for issues that have been officially marked as accepted by the ESLint team.
• Otherwise Closed: AI-generated PRs submitted for issues that have not been marked as accepted will be closed without review.

We appreciate your cooperation in following these guidelines as we explore the benefits of AI-assisted development together!

Compensation

ESLint does not provide compensation, either to team members or through the contributor pool, for contributions created primarily by AI. This is because we want to encourage human creativity and effort in our project, and we believe that AI should be used as a tool to assist rather than replace human contributions.