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Expand Up @@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ The CI has an "always green" approach which means that failing tests are not all

Note: Usually you can run the CI on your own fork to verify that it passes before even open an PR. Unfortunately some changes to avoid duplicated builds in our CI disabled this (TODO: file a ticket about this).

### AI/LLM Disclosure

If you choose to use AI/LLM to assist with your work please disclose this in the description of the PR (so it will be part of the commit message of the merged changes) by stating the name and the version of the model in question.

Also please attribute any such changes with `Co-authored-by:` for the respective model (if available).

chrchr-github Jun 18, 2026

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I don't think this is useful, there is some consensus that AI should not be regarded as an author: https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/225428

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That is unfortunate as that would have greatly helped to easily identify (one click) commits which were authored with the help of AI.

I do have seen people attributing it to GitHub accounts for these models.

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Assisted-by: appears to be the way to go: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-ai-contributions-assisted-by-git-trailer-standard.

PRs containing such changes should also be flagged with the [`ai-assisted`](https://github.com/cppcheck-opensource/cppcheck/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3Aai-assisted) label.

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