Before you contribute

Por qué existe

before-you-contribute

Two shell scripts that answer the two questions worth asking before you write a line of code for someone else's project: Does this project accept AI-assisted contributions, and on what terms? Is anyone already working on this issue?

Both are one command, both read GitHub rather than guessing, and both exist because getting either one wrong wastes a maintainer's afternoon.

ai-policy — where the rules actually live

Projects publish their position on AI-assisted contributions in four different places, and the one people check is usually not the one that matters.

Pallets' prohibition is not in the Click repository. It is in pallets/.github, the organisation-wide defaults repo, and on the project website. Reading pallets/click/CONTRIBUTING and finding nothing tells you nothing.

So the script reads, in order: /.github — CONTRIBUTING.md, AIPOLICY.md,…