# Requests: AI-friendly with conditions

> LLM tools may be used, but a human must hold the copyright, understand the code and take full technical and legal responsibility. LLMs may not be co-authors, unsupervised agents are banned, LLM-generated review comments are not wanted, and summaries must be fully fact-checked.

- What it is: A simple HTTP library for Python. (Library)
- Homepage: https://requests.readthedocs.io/
- Repository: https://github.com/psf/requests
- 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, medium confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/requests/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: AI-friendly with conditions (Contributor takes full responsibility; Output must be license-compatible; 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: "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." (https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md)
- Code contributions: "Every contribution has to be backed by a human who unequivocally owns the copyright for all changes." (https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md)
- Code contributions: "Absolutely no unsupervised agentic tools like OpenClaw." (https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md)
- AI-written text: "Do not post LLM-generated review comments – we can prompt LLMs ourselves should we desire their wisdom." (https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md)
- AI-written text: "Do not post summaries unless you've fact-checked them and take responsibility for 100% of their content." (https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md)

## Sources

- [Requests Generative AI / LLM Policy](https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/.github/AI_POLICY.md), fetched 2026-10-09