OSRF adopts an updated policy on use of genAI/LLM tools in contributions
OSRF adopts an updated policy on use of genAI/LLM tools in contributions
The Open Source Robotics Foundation has updated its policy on the use of generative AI and large language models in contributions. The new guidelines, informed by a year of usage evolution and community feedback, provide clearer grounds for rejecting AI-generated content ('slop'), offer refreshed guidance, require disclosure of AI use for pull requests but make it optional for commits, and apply to all OSRA-controlled repositories.
The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) has amended its policy regarding the use of generative AI and large language models in contributions to its repositories, introducing clearer grounds for rejecting AI-generated content and making disclosure optional for commits while remaining required for pull requests.
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In May of 2025, we announced the initial version of our policy for genAI/LLM use in contributions. In June of this year, the ROS community iterated on this policy and provided additional guidance for what they’d like to see for agent-assisted contributions.
Last month the OSRA TGC, using what it’s learned both from evolution in usage of these tools in the year+ since initial adoptions, as well as from the ROS guidance, amended the OSRF policy. The full diff is available here, but the summary of the changes is:
- More detailed and clearer grounds for rejecting AI slop.
- Refreshed guidance.
- Requiring disclosure of genAI/LLM use for PRs but changing the policy to make the disclosure optional for commits.
Please review and become familiar with the updated policy prior to contributing to any OSRA-controlled repositories (aka all of the Open Robotics projects).
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