Overview
- The Godot Foundation updated contributor rules to forbid AI-authored code, pull requests submitted by autonomous AI agents (sometimes called “vibe coding”), and AI-generated text in human-to-human messages.
- The change responds to a surge of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests that created a large review backlog and left volunteer maintainers demoralized and overworked.
- The policy enforces human accountability by auto-banning known agent use, requiring disclosure of any AI assistance, and mandating that a human reviewer approve every pull request before it is merged.
- Limited AI uses remain allowed for small, menial tasks such as code completion, regex or find-and-replace, and machine translation of human-authored text, while substantial AI-generated code is banned.
- The move is one of the earliest strict open-source limits on AI code and could set a precedent for other projects as Godot says it will keep a conservative stance and re-evaluate the rules as tools evolve.