AI_POLICY.md

June 13, 2026 · View on GitHub

Eclipse Collections AI Policy

Autonomous AI agents are not permitted to submit PRs or issues. A human must be able to take responsibility for any code contribution.
The submitting person must understand and be able to discuss, modify and take responsibility for the submitted code.
Submitting non-trivial ¹ AI generated code in a PR is permitted, with the following restrictions:
- The commit message must include a notice in the following format::
```
  Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION [TOOL1] [TOOL2]
```
  Where:
  - AGENT_NAME is the name of the AI tool or framework
  - MODEL_VERSION is the specific model version used
  - [TOOL1] [TOOL2] are optional specialized analysis tools used (e.g., coccinelle, sparse, smatch, clang-tidy)
  Basic development tools (git, Eclipse, Intellij, etc) should not be listed.
  
  Example::
```
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-3-opus coccinelle sparse
```
  This may be conveniently added using the --trailer option with the git commit command. See the Working with Github wiki page for an example.
- No AI specific files should be included in the commit.
- All other contribution guidelines must be followed, including copyright/license compatibility and notices, Eclipse ECA, etc.
- Additionally, overly verbose AI generated PR descriptions are highly discouraged. The faster/easier a human reviewer can read the text, the faster it'll be merged.
Use of AI for translation purposes in issues and other non-committed text is explicitly permitted.

Trivial LLM generated content such as variable renames or autocompleted function calls, often branded "predictions" or "suggestions", that is otherwise indistinguishable from traditional methods such as a regex search/replace or an IDE autocompletion can be treated like other regular IDE tools such as Intellisense. This does not include cases where the prediction generates things like entire function blocks. ↩