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25 changes: 25 additions & 0 deletions docs/content/contributing/index.md
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Expand Up @@ -18,8 +18,33 @@ Origin (DCO). This document was created by the Linux Kernel community and is a
simple statement that you, as a contributor, have the legal right to make the
contribution. See the [DCO](https://github.com/kcp-dev/kcp/tree/main/DCO) file for details.

The DCO requires a human to certify the contribution. AI agents cannot legally provide this certification.

For how to correctly set this on your commits, check out the [Getting Started](./getting-started.md#developer-certificate-of-origin-dco) guide.

## Use of AI Coding Assistants

Contributors are welcome to use AI tools to aid development. However, the human author remains fully responsible
for every contribution they submit. Before opening a pull request, filing an issue, or pushing a commit,
contributors must review and understand the content in its entirety — just as they would for any code they write themselves.

### Authorship and Responsibility

AI tools are not authors. The human submitting the contribution is the sole author and bears full responsibility for it,
including correctness, licensing compliance, and adherence to project conventions.

We will not accept contributions that attribute authorship or sign-off to an AI tool. This includes the following
or similar markers, which shift the responsibility to an AI:

- `Signed-off-by: <AI tool name>`
- `Co-authored-by: <AI tool name>`
- `Committed-by: <AI tool name>`
- `Generated with <AI tool name>`

### Attribution

There is no need to attribute your commit messages using `Assisted-by` markers.

## Community Roles

### Maintainers
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