# Home Assistant: AI-friendly with conditions

> Under the Open Home Foundation policy, AI may be used for code and docs if the contributor reviews, understands and can explain every change. Autonomous agents are not allowed. AI may help with writing, but answers to maintainers must be the contributor's own, and quoted AI output must be marked.

- What it is: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. (Application)
- Homepage: https://www.home-assistant.io/
- Repository: https://github.com/home-assistant/core
- Overall stance: AI-friendly with conditions (Mostly friendly). AI-assisted contributions are accepted with extra rules, such as disclosing AI use, or AI is banned for issues or written text.
- Last classified: 2026-10-09 (manual review, medium confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/home-assistant/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: AI-friendly with conditions (Contributor takes full responsibility; A human must review the output; No autonomous agents)
- **Issues & bug reports**: AI-friendly with conditions (No autonomous agents)
- **AI-written text**: Not AI-friendly (AI use must be disclosed; Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar))

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "We support using AI (i.e., LLMs) as tools when contributing to Open Home Foundation projects. However, you are responsible for any contributions you submit, and we are responsible for any contributions we merge and release." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- Code contributions: "All contributions must be reviewed and understood by the contributor before submission." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- Code contributions: "We do not allow autonomous agents to be used for contributing to our projects." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- Issues & bug reports: "We will close any pull requests or issues that we believe were created autonomously, and may mark automated comments as spam." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- AI-written text: "Do not use AI to generate answers to questions from maintainers." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- AI-written text: "Using AI to improve grammar or clarity is fine, but the substance of your responses must be your own." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)
- AI-written text: "If you wish to include context from an interaction with AI in your comments, it must be in a quote block (e.g., using >) and disclosed as such." (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy)

## Sources

- [Open Home Foundation AI Policy](https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/ai_policy), fetched 2026-10-09