In May of 2025, we announced the initial version of our policy for genAI/LLM use in contributions. In June of this year, the ROS community iterated on this policy and provided additional guidance for what they’d like to see for agent-assisted contributions.
Last month the OSRA TGC, using what it’s learned both from evolution in usage of these tools in the year+ since initial adoptions, as well as from the ROS guidance, amended the OSRF policy. The full diff is available here, but the summary of the changes is:
- More detailed and clearer grounds for rejecting AI slop.
- Refreshed guidance.
- Requiring disclosure of genAI/LLM use for PRs but changing the policy to make the disclosure optional for commits.
Please review and become familiar with the updated policy prior to contributing to any OSRA-controlled repositories (aka all of the Open Robotics projects).