SearXNG
A free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
Mostly friendly. Welcome, with extra rules.
All AI use must be disclosed with the tool and extent, the contributor must fully understand the code, and AI may never be the main author of a PR. Issues and PR descriptions must be fully human-written, with AI translation of self-written text allowed.
Policy by area
- Code contributionsPatches, pull requests and other changes written with AI tools.
- Mostly friendly
- AI use must be disclosed
- Contributor takes full responsibility
- Issues & bug reportsBug reports, security reports and issues found or written with AI tools.
- Unfriendly
- Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar)
- AI-written textPull request descriptions, issue comments and summaries written by AI.
- Unfriendly
- Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar)
In their own words
Code contributions
All AI usage in any form must be disclosed.
The human-in-the-loop must fully understand all code.
AI should never be the main author of the PR.
Issues & bug reports
Issues and PR descriptions must be fully human-written.
AI-written text
If you're a not a native English speaker, using AI for translating self-written issue texts to English is okay, but please keep the wording as close as possible to the original wording.
Sources
- SearXNG AI Policygithub.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/AI_POLICY.rstSnapshot 9 Oct 2026