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The package installer for Python.

Mostly friendly. Welcome, with extra rules.

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LLM tools may be used, but a human must own the copyright, understand the code and take full responsibility for every line. LLMs may not be listed as co-authors and unsupervised agents are banned. LLM-generated comments must be accurate and stood behind.

Policy by area

Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
Mostly friendly
  • Contributor takes full responsibility
  • Output must be license-compatible
  • 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

If you used LLM tools during development, you may still submit – but you must remove any LLM co-author tags and take full ownership of every line.

pip Generative AI / LLM Policy

Every contribution has to be backed by a human who unequivocally owns the copyright for all changes.

pip Generative AI / LLM Policy

Absolutely no unsupervised agentic tools like OpenClaw.

pip Generative AI / LLM Policy

AI-written text

LLM-generated comments must be concise and accurate, and you must be prepared to stand by them.

pip Generative AI / LLM Policy

When using these tools, it's your responsibility to ensure that the output is correct, and useful.

pip Generative AI / LLM Policy

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