No More 'AI Slop': Godot Officially Bans Code Written by Artificial Intelligence

Godot closes its doors to code written by artificial intelligence. The Godot Foundation has announced a revision of its guidelines for contributors that will explicitly prohibit code generated by AI, pull requests submitted by autonomous agents, and texts written by a chatbot in communications between developers.

This issue is not new. Back in February 2026, the maintainers of the open-source engine reported an unsustainable growth of "AI slop" pull requests, calling them "increasingly draining and demoralizing" for those involved in code review.

After months of internal discussion, the Foundation has decided to draw a clear line. "It’s time to recognize that these problems will not go away on their own," the statement reads, "therefore, we must reduce the burden on maintainers while still ensuring a pathway to train future stewards of the project."

No more AI requests for the Godot Foundation: crackdown on pull requests. The motivation is rooted in the very value of volunteer work. Reviewing a pull request makes sense, the Foundation explains, when it helps to grow a potential future maintainer: "If your feedback on a PR is absorbed by a machine instead of helping a person grow, it becomes much harder to justify the free hours spent reviewing code."

At the core of the decision is primarily a matter of responsibility. "Artificial intelligence cannot take on responsibility, and we cannot trust that those who use it extensively understand their code well enough to fix it," the Foundation wrote in a recently published post.

The new guidelines allow for the use of AI only for marginal tasks, such as automatic code completion or find-and-replace operations, provided that the usage is openly declared in the discussion of the pull request. Those who exceed the first three accepted pull requests will lose the ability to propose new features or substantial refactoring without explicit permission from the maintainers.

The ban also extends to written communications: no text generated by a chatbot will be tolerated in exchanges between developers, a choice the Foundation defines as "a basic principle of respect." Exceptions are made for automatic translations, as long as the source text was written by a real person.

However, the Foundation does not rule out future reconsideration. "Things change every day regarding the available artificial intelligence tools," it clarified. "We will continue to take a conservative approach in our policies, but we are ready to reassess them as the context evolves."