Hi all, I would like to propose that SciPy adopts the same AI policy, with some light editing to remove irreverent text, as SymPy ( AI Generated Code and Communication Policy - SymPy 1.15.0.dev documentation ). Why am I proposing this: The volume of AI generated pull requests is only increasing a…

Policy-wise I think @matthew-brett and others can shape up our text as SymPy text is a little bit too terse or concise. I will leave that discussion to others. What I think we urgently need is AGENTS.txt and CLAUDE.md pointing to that text file so that they don’t even make unnecessary PRs in the fi…

Thanks @j-bowhay . I like your proposal, the SymPy policy seems to be very sensible overall, and places responsibility where it belongs. And I agree it’s time to have something in place - better than nothing. For two reasons: We seem to be inconvenienced by it a lot more recently, with an increasi…

Another recent example of a big project adopting such a policy: [RFC] LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop - LLVM Project - LLVM Discussion Forums

I like the idea of adding a AGENT.txt and CLAUDE.md :light_bulb: +100 on a policy and SymPy ones is pragmatic and concise.

Thanks for sharing the LLVM policy @h-vetinari , it was useful to read. Let me post the link to the actual policy as published rather than the RFC thread for it: LLVM AI Tool Use Policy — LLVM 23.0.0git documentation .

Can you start a separate thread on this @ilayn ? There’s nontrivial design complexity there (what files, how to accommodate different tools, user preferences for build/test commands, etc.), and it’s related to but separate from having an AI policy.

Done. See [image] AGENTS.txt and CLAUDE.md addition to SciPy repository scipy As it is getting very common to receive LLM generated pull requests on the repository. It is probably better to meet these tools where they are instead of instructing the PR owner ev…

I was just thinking about this today, since I wanted to point a new contributor to some kind of policy on how to use LLMs. Thanks for restarting this discussion.

We don’t have a lot experience yet with this policy in SymPy since it was only approved maybe a week ago. As well as the policy a note was added to the PR template linking though to the policy: .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md?plain=1 cb82b006a #### AI Generati…

Interesting, thanks. One of my motivations for wanting to adopt this is to be able to point to a policy when closing PRs rather than having to write ad hoc explanations. Whilst it would be nice if people actually read and followed it, I still think it would be useful regardless.

Proposal for SciPy to adopt the same AI policy as SymPy

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ilayn January 30, 2026, 12:48pm 8

Done. See