AI Policy

FiPy’s developers enthusiastically welcome pull requests, issues, and questions from human contributors. While you are free to use AI tools such as large-language models (LLMs) in your workflow, please note:

• You are responsible for the entirety of what you submit.

• You must read, review, and understand the full content of any LLM-generated code or text.

• You must disclose the use of any agentic assistance, specifying

  • what tool(s) were used,

  • how they were used,

  • what portions of any code or text are AI generated.

In the course of code review, a human is expected to respond to any feedback and not allow an agent to respond without human oversight.

The reason for this policy is that reviewing contributions comes at a cost to FiPy’s developers. We must spend time reviewing submissions for correctness, API consistency, stylistic conformity, documentation, and test coverage. Submissions that do not reflect a comparable effort on the part of the contributor are known as “extractive contributions” and are not welcome.

This policy applies to:

• Code, whether or not via pull request,

• Documentation,

• Issues,

• Discussions,

• Comments and feedback on any of the above.

tl;dr

We value interactions with FiPy’s users; if we want to talk to a bot, we know where to find them.

References

This document was informed by:

• LLVM AI Tool Use Policy

• SciPy AI Policy

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