Godot bans AI-authored code contributions

Category: Dev tools
Status: confirmed
Sources: Godot policy, PC Gamer, HN discussion
Summary: The Godot Foundation amended its contribution guidelines on 2026-06-30 to require that submitted code be human authored. AI assistance is limited to menial tasks such as code completion, regex, and find and replace, and any AI use in authoring code must be disclosed in the pull request discussion. Autonomous AI agents and fully AI-generated ("vibe coded") submissions are barred and already trigger an automatic ban from the GitHub repository, and AI-generated text in maintainer communication is not allowed. The Foundation cited rising AI-generated contribution volume against flat reviewer capacity, the loss of the mentorship value reviewers expect, and that AI cannot take responsibility for the code it produces. A separate change requires contributors with three or fewer merged pull requests to obtain maintainer approval before new features or significant refactors.
Why it matters: A major open-source engine formalizing a human-authorship requirement sets a governance precedent for how large projects absorb the AI-contribution and maintainer-burden pressure also seen at curl, FFmpeg, and package registries.