# Homebrew: AI-friendly with conditions

> Issues and pull requests made with AI are allowed if the tool or model is disclosed up front and all generated content is reviewed first. AI may not be credited in commits, contributors must answer maintainers themselves without AI, and non-maintainers may have only one AI-assisted PR open at a time.

- What it is: The package manager for macOS and Linux. (Developer tool)
- Homepage: https://brew.sh/
- Repository: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
- 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/homebrew/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: AI-friendly with conditions (AI use must be disclosed; A human must review the output)
- **Issues & bug reports**: AI-friendly with conditions (AI use must be disclosed; A human must review the output)
- **AI-written text**: Not AI-friendly (AI use must be disclosed; Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar))

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "You must disclose in the initial issue or pull request that you used AI/LLM and what tool/model/etc. you used." (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Code contributions: "You must review all AI/LLM generated code, prose, etc. content before you ask anyone in Homebrew to review it for you." (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Issues & bug reports: "We allow you to create issues and pull requests with AI/LLM with the following requirements" (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- AI-written text: "You must answer all maintainer questions and pull request review comments yourself, without using AI/LLM." (https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Sources

- [Contributing to Homebrew](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md), fetched 2026-10-09