Re: AGENTS.md

Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide [04/Aug 10:23am +02] wrote:
> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> But it does suggest that we would get at least some benefit from
>> committing AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md along the lines proposed in this
>> thread?
>
> There=E2=80=99s also potential damage: when I see an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.=
md file
> in a repository, I usually decide that my time is better spent elsewhere.
>
> The presence of these files hints at accepting LLM contributions to me.
>
> If this is similar for many others, we may lose potential human
> contributors who are aligned with our policy of not accepting LLM
> authored code.

This policy is only provisional.  We do not have a general anti-LLM
stance.  Probably the FSF are going to allow LLMs that meet certain
criteria of freeness.  So we will probably want an AGENTS.md anyway.

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Sean Whitton