AI Policy

The use of AI tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude, or similar) is allowed when contributing to html-validate, subject to the following conditions.

Disclosure

Contributors must disclose when AI tools were used to generate or assist with a contribution. This can be done in the merge request description or a commit message, for example:

"Parts of this implementation were generated with the assistance of [tool name]."

Human responsibility

AI-generated code must be reviewed, tested, and understood by the contributing human before submission. The contributor takes full responsibility for the correctness, quality, and appropriateness of everything they submit, regardless of whether it was written by a human or generated by an AI.

Submissions that contain AI-generated code that clearly has not been reviewed or tested will not be accepted.

Responding to feedback

The contributing human must be able to read, understand, and respond to review comments on their contribution. Using AI to generate a contribution and then relying solely on AI to respond to all review feedback is not acceptable - a human must be engaged in the review process.