# Neovim: AI-friendly

> Using AI for contributions is acceptable as long as the contributor reviews the output before requesting review and trims verbosity from code, docs, comments, PR descriptions and commit messages.

- What it is: A hyperextensible Vim-based text editor. (Application)
- Homepage: https://neovim.io/
- Repository: https://github.com/neovim/neovim
- Overall stance: AI-friendly (Friendly). AI-assisted contributions are welcome under the same rules as any other contribution.
- Last classified: 2026-10-09 (manual review, high confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/neovim/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: AI-friendly (A human must review the output)
- **Issues & bug reports**: No AI policy
- **AI-written text**: AI-friendly (A human must review the output)

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "Using AI for contributions is acceptable, given the following:" (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Code contributions: "YOU review the output before sending a non-Draft PR." (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- AI-written text: "REMOVE verbosity and blathering from documentation, comments, PR description, commit message, etc." (https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Sources

- [Contributing to Neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), fetched 2026-10-09