How to Contribute

December 18, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

We would love to accept your patches and contributions to this project.

Before you begin

Sign our Contributor License Agreement

Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution; this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project.

If you or your current employer have already signed the Google CLA (even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it again.

Visit https://cla.developers.google.com/ to see your current agreements or to sign a new one.

Review our Community Guidelines

This project follows Google's Open Source Community Guidelines.

Contribution process

Code Reviews

All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose.

Understand the repo

An AI-generated overview of the system architecture for this repository is available here. This can provide an interactive way to explore the codebase.

Quick notes about the various directories:

  • Source code for kubectl-ai CLI lives under cmd/ and pkg/ directories.
  • gollm directory is an independent Go module that implements LLM clients for different LLM providers.
  • modelserving directory contains utilities and configuration to build and run open source AI models locally or in a kubernetes cluster.
  • kubectl-utils is an independent Go package/binary to help with the benchmarks tasks that evaluates various conditions involving properties of kubernetes resources.
  • User guides/design docs/proposals live under docs directory.
  • dev directory scripts for project related tasks (adhoc/CI).