gVisor
An application kernel that provides a strong isolation boundary for containers.
Mostly friendly. Welcome, with extra rules.
Contributors are expected to embrace AI tools, with mandatory human oversight: all AI-generated content must be reviewed, the contributor remains the sole responsible author, and substantial AI content must be labelled, for example with Assisted-by. This applies to code, issues, security reports and comments.
Policy by area
- Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
- Mostly friendly
- AI use must be disclosed
- Contributor takes full responsibility
- A human must review the output
- Issues & bug reportsBug reports, security reports and issues found or written with AI tools.
- Mostly friendly
- AI use must be disclosed
- A human must review the output
- AI-written textPull request descriptions, issue comments and summaries written by AI.
- Mostly friendly
- AI use must be disclosed
- A human must review the output
In their own words
Code contributions
We expect our contributors to embrace AI tools.
All AI-generated content must be thoroughly reviewed by the contributor before being submitted for review.
Transparently label all contributions containing substantial AI-generated content.
The contributor remains the sole author and is fully responsible for the contribution’s accuracy, quality, and maintainability.
Issues & bug reports
Issues or security vulnerabilities
AI-written text
Comments and feedback on pull requests or issues
Sources
- Contributing to gVisorgvisor.dev/contributingSnapshot 9 Oct 2026