# Wagtail: AI-friendly with conditions

> AI assistance is permitted but purely AI-generated contributions are not; contributors must understand the solution and fill in the AI usage part of the PR description. PR descriptions and replies to review must be written by the contributor, with AI help for English allowed.

- What it is: A Django content management system. (Application)
- Homepage: https://wagtail.org/
- Repository: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail
- 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, high confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/wagtail/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: AI-friendly with conditions (AI use must be disclosed; A human must review the output)
- **Issues & bug reports**: No AI policy
- **AI-written text**: Not AI-friendly (Only minor help (autocomplete, grammar))

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "AI assistance when working on Wagtail is permitted. Purely AI-generated contributions are not - if we wanted those, we would prompt an AI agent ourselves." (https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html)
- Code contributions: "If you use generative AI for your contribution, please fill in the “AI usage” portion of the PR description." (https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html)
- Code contributions: "Entire work (code changes, documentation update, pull request descriptions) are LLM-generated without there being a clear understanding of the solution implementation from the contributor." (https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html)
- AI-written text: "For this reason, we ask you to write the pull request description yourself, and not offload that task to an AI agent." (https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html)
- AI-written text: "Assistance with written English for code comments, documentation and pull request descriptions" (https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html)

## Sources

- [Wagtail general coding guidelines](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/contributing/general_guidelines.html), fetched 2026-10-09