# yt-dlp: Not AI-friendly

> LLMs, agents and other AI tools are strictly forbidden for any kind of contribution: issues, bug reports, pull requests, PR descriptions, comments and translation. Violators may be blocked without warning.

- What it is: A feature-rich command-line audio and video downloader. (Developer tool)
- Homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Repository: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- Overall stance: Not AI-friendly (Unfriendly). AI-generated contributions are not accepted; at most minor help such as autocomplete or grammar fixes.
- Last classified: 2026-10-09 (manual review, high confidence)
- Policy last changed: 2026-10-09
- Web page: https://areweaifriendly.com/projects/yt-dlp/

## Policy by area

- **Code contributions**: Not AI-friendly
- **Issues & bug reports**: Not AI-friendly
- **AI-written text**: Not AI-friendly

## In their own words

- Code contributions: "This project strictly forbids the usage of LLMs, agents, or any other AI tools for any kind of contribution." (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Issues & bug reports: "No AI / no LLMs for issues or bug reports." (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- AI-written text: "No AI / no LLMs for issue tracker comments or code review comments." (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

## Sources

- [Contributing to yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), fetched 2026-10-09