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AI Policy
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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
<https://llvm.org/docs/AIToolPolicy.html#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
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We value interactions with FiPy's users; if we want to talk to a
bot, we know where to find them.

References
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This document was informed by:

- `LLVM AI Tool Use Policy <https://llvm.org/docs/AIToolPolicy.html#extractive-contributions>`_
- `SciPy AI Policy <https://llvm.org/docs/AIToolPolicy.html>`_