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Neovim

A hyperextensible Vim-based text editor.

Friendly. Welcomes AI-assisted work.

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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.

Policy by area

Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
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  • A human must review the output
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.
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  • A human must review the output

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Code contributions

Using AI for contributions is acceptable, given the following:

Contributing to Neovim

YOU review the output before sending a non-Draft PR.

Contributing to Neovim

AI-written text

REMOVE verbosity and blathering from documentation, comments, PR description, commit message, etc.

Contributing to Neovim

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