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# AI Contribution Policy

> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> If you are using **any kind of AI assistance** to contribute to Model Context Protocol,
> it must be disclosed in the pull request or issue.

We welcome and encourage the use of AI tools to help improve Model Context Protocol. Many valuable
contributions have been enhanced with AI assistance for code generation, issue detection, and
feature definition.

That being said, if you are using any kind of AI assistance (e.g., agents such as Claude Code,
ChatGPT) while contributing to Model Context Protocol, **this must be disclosed in the pull
request or issue**, along with the extent to which AI assistance was used (e.g., documentation
comments vs. code generation).

If your PR responses or comments are being generated by an AI, disclose that as well.

As an exception, trivial spacing or typo fixes don't need to be disclosed, so long as the changes
are limited to small parts of the code or short phrases.

An example disclosure:

> This PR was written primarily by Claude Code.

Or a more detailed disclosure:

> I consulted ChatGPT to understand the codebase but the solution
> was fully authored manually by myself.

Failure to disclose this is first and foremost rude to the human operators on the other end of the
pull request, but it also makes it difficult to determine how much scrutiny to apply to the
contribution.

In a perfect world, AI assistance would produce equal or higher quality work than any human. That
isn't the world we live in today, and in most cases where human supervision or expertise is not in
the loop, it's generating code or changes that cannot be reasonably maintained or evolved.

## What we're looking for

When submitting AI-assisted contributions, please ensure they include:

- **Clear disclosure of AI use** - You are transparent about AI use and the degree to which you're
using it for the contribution
- **Human understanding** - You personally understand what the changes do
- **Clear rationale** - You can explain why the change is needed and how it fits within Model
Context Protocol goals
- **Concrete evidence** - Include test cases, scenarios, or examples that demonstrate the
improvement
- **Your own analysis** - Share your thoughts on the end-to-end experience

## What we'll close

We reserve the right to close submissions that appear to not follow the disclosure policy.

## Scope

This policy applies to all repositories in the
[modelcontextprotocol](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol) organization, including the
specification, SDKs, reference servers, and tooling.
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## AI Contributions

> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> If you are using **any kind of AI assistance** to contribute to Model Context Protocol,
> it must be disclosed in the pull request or issue.

We welcome and encourage the use of AI tools to help improve Model Context Protocol. Many valuable contributions
have been enhanced with AI assistance for code generation, issue detection, and feature definition.

That being said, if you are using any kind of AI assistance (e.g., agents such as Claude Code, ChatGPT)
while contributing to Model Context Protocol, **this must be disclosed in the pull request or issue**,
along with the extent to which AI assistance was used (e.g., documentation comments vs. code generation).

If your PR responses or comments are being generated by an AI, disclose that as well.

As an exception, trivial spacing or typo fixes don't need to be disclosed, so long as the changes are
limited to small parts of the code or short phrases.

An example disclosure:

> This PR was written primarily by Claude Code.

Or a more detailed disclosure:

> I consulted ChatGPT to understand the codebase but the solution
> was fully authored manually by myself.

Failure to disclose this is first and foremost rude to the human operators on the other end of the pull request,
but it also makes it difficult to determine how much scrutiny to apply to the contribution.

In a perfect world, AI assistance would produce equal or higher quality work than any human. That isn't the world
we live in today, and in most cases where human supervision or expertise is not in the loop, it's generating code
or changes that cannot be reasonably maintained or evolved.

### What we're looking for

When submitting AI-assisted contributions, please ensure they include:

- **Clear disclosure of AI use** - You are transparent about AI use and degree to which you're using it for the contribution
- **Human understanding** - You personally understand what the changes do
- **Clear rationale** - You can explain why the change is needed and how it fits within Model Context Protocol goals
- **Concrete evidence** - Include test cases, scenarios, or examples that demonstrate the improvement
- **Your own analysis** - Share your thoughts on the end-to-end experience

### What we'll close

We reserve the right to close submissions that appear to not follow the disclosure policy.
If you are using any kind of AI assistance to contribute to Model Context Protocol, it must be
disclosed in the pull request or issue. See [AI_POLICY.md](AI_POLICY.md) for the full policy,
including disclosure expectations and what we look for in AI-assisted contributions.

## License

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- **You know why** - You can articulate why the change is needed
- **You've verified it** - You've tested or validated that it works as intended

You can read more about our stance in
[our spec contribution guidelines](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-contributions).
You can read the full policy in
[AI_POLICY.md](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md).

## Code of Conduct

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