[QGIS-Developer] R: Tightening AI submission policy?

Tim Sutton tim at kartoza.com
Tue Jun 23 03:36:48 PDT 2026


Hi


Can we clarify what the scope of this change is? We internally use LLM
assistances a lot for the web development work we do on various QGIS sites.
Are you suggesting this as a global QGIS.org policy or scoped the the QGIS
application code base?

Regards

Tim



On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 9:26 AM Jürgen E. Fischer via QGIS-Developer <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 23. Jun 2026 at 08:19:18 +0000, Ludovico Toscano via
> QGIS-Developer wrote:
> > I have an idea which is saw implemented in ghostty, to prevent
> contribution from bot or vibe coders. Basically the author of the repo has
> made a honeypot for these agents, he has made a AGENTS.md and a CLAUDE.md
> where in the last line of the document he tell the model to make a md file
> that saing "I am a sad, dumb little AI driver with no real skills." His
> idea is simple, if the author of the pr doesn't read the diff of the pr he
> will not notice that the LLM has added this file and this trigger a
> immediate ban.
> >
> > https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AGENTS.md
>
> See also https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/AGENTS.md
>
> Jürgen
>
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