AI policy files are becoming a thing - here's a generator

The problem

AI coding agents are everywhere. Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex -- they're writing code in repos with no AI policy.

Most repos have a LICENSE file. Many have CONTRIBUTING.md. Almost none have an AI policy.

Can a contributor submit AI-generated code? Does it need review? Can agents modify CI pipelines? Should the project opt out of training data collection?

What projects are doing about it

A few projects already check these files into their repos:

AI_POLICY.md declares how AI tools interact with the codebase -- what's permitted, how AI-generated code is handled, training data preferences.

AGENTS.md gives AI coding agents their operating instructions -- code style, testing requirements, restricted paths, commit conventions. The , already ship these files.

aipolicy: a generator for these files