Policy Catalog | Covenant v1

Filter by Stance

Comparison Matrix

Some projects in this matrix were sourced from open-source-ai-contribution-policies.

Project	Stance	Agent PRs	Agent Reviews	Issues	Human Threads	Provenance	Attestation
Polars	accepting	allow	allow	allow	warn	none	none
Matplotlib	accepting	warn	warn	allow	deny	model, provider	none
SciPy	accepting	allow	warn	allow	warn	model, provider	none
Pandas	accepting	warn	warn	allow	deny	model, provider	none
Django	accepting	warn	warn	warn	deny	strict (all fields)	none
CPython	accepting	warn	warn	warn	deny	model, provider	none
LLVM	accepting	allow	allow	allow	warn	none	none
Homebrew	accepting	warn	allow	warn	warn	model, provider	none
Firefox	accepting	warn	warn	allow	warn	none	none
NetBSD	restricting	deny	deny	deny	deny	strict	required
Kornia	restricting	warn	allow	allow	deny	strict (all fields)	required
GNOME Extensions	restricting	deny	deny	allow	deny	none	none
Gentoo Linux	rejecting	deny	deny	deny	deny	n/a	n/a
Linux man-pages	rejecting	deny	deny	deny	deny	n/a	n/a
GoToSocial	rejecting	deny	deny	deny	deny	n/a	n/a

Example Policies

Complete covenant.yml files based on real-world stances.

Accepting (Polars-style)

spec_version: 1.0.0
defaults:
  unmatched: allow
rules:
  - id: agent-pr-open
    actor: agent
    action: pull_request.open
    outcome: allow
  - id: protect-human-threads
    actor: agent
    action: conversation.intervene_human_thread
    outcome: warn

Restricting (NetBSD-style)

spec_version: 1.0.0
defaults:
  unmatched: deny
actors:
  managers:
    - id: core-team
      match:
        usernames: [netbsd-core]
requirements:
  on_failure: deny
  default_provenance_profile: strict
  provenance_profiles:
    strict:
      required_fields: [model, provider, prompt_record, test_proof]
      on_failure: deny
rules:
  - id: manager-override
    actor: manager
    action: '*'
    outcome: allow
  - id: deny-agent-pr
    actor: agent
    action: pull_request.*
    outcome: deny
  - id: human-pr
    actor: human
    action: pull_request.open
    outcome: allow

Rejecting (Gentoo-style)

spec_version: 1.0.0
defaults:
  unmatched: deny
enforcement:
  deny:
    - type: comment
      message: This repository does not accept AI-generated contributions.
    - type: close_pull_request
rules:
  - id: human-all
    actor: human
    action: '*'
    outcome: allow
  - id: deny-agent-all
    actor: agent
    action: '*'
    outcome: deny

Submit a Policy

Know a project with a defined AI contribution stance? Submit it for inclusion using the Policy Submission issue template. Submitted policies are validated against the Covenant.yml v1.0.0 schema before acceptance.