“Our reason for the strict AI policy is not due to an anti-AI stance, but instead due to the number of highly unqualified people using AI.”

Ghostty published an AI policy for contributors that requires full disclosure of any AI usage, limits AI-generated PRs to pre-accepted issues only, and mandates human testing before submission. Violators face public banning. The policy shifts the validation burden from maintainers back to contributors, which is the right move—AI makes it trivially easy to generate plausible-looking code that doesn’t actually work.