# napari: AI-friendly with conditions

> Any tools, including AI, may be used, but contributors are responsible for their changes and must understand, read and test them. AI agents may not submit PRs. LLM-written messages are acceptable if the author has read and stands behind them, with quoted LLM answers marked as quotes.

- What it is: A fast, interactive multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. (Application)
- Homepage: https://napari.org/
- Repository: https://github.com/napari/napari
- 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, high confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/napari/

## 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**: No AI policy
- **AI-written text**: AI-friendly (Contributor takes full responsibility; A human must review the output)

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "You may use whatever tools you like, but you are ultimately responsible for the changes you submit." (https://napari.org/dev/developers/contributing/ai.html)
- Code contributions: "Do not allow AI agents to submit PRs for you, and do not submit an AI-generated PR you haven’t personally understood and tested, as this wastes maintainers’ time." (https://napari.org/dev/developers/contributing/ai.html)
- AI-written text: "If you use an LLM to write a message for you, it remains your responsibility to read through the whole thing and make sure that it makes sense to you and represents your ideas concisely." (https://napari.org/dev/developers/contributing/ai.html)
- AI-written text: "Don’t ask an LLM to generate a PR description on your behalf based on your code changes, as it will simply regurgitate the information that’s already there." (https://napari.org/dev/developers/contributing/ai.html)

## Sources

- [napari AI use policy and guidelines](https://napari.org/dev/developers/contributing/ai.html), fetched 2026-10-09