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napari

A fast, interactive multi-dimensional image viewer for Python.

Mostly friendly. Welcome, with extra rules.

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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.

Policy by area

Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
Mostly friendly
  • Contributor takes full responsibility
  • A human must review the output
  • No autonomous agents
Issues & bug reportsBug reports, security reports and issues found or written with AI tools.
No policy
AI-written textPull request descriptions, issue comments and summaries written by 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.

napari AI use policy and guidelines

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.

napari AI use policy and guidelines

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.

napari AI use policy and guidelines

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.

napari AI use policy and guidelines

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