rfc: AI Tool Policy

[clavin]

This RFC proposes an official policy on AI-assisted contributions to Electron. The goals are to:

1. Set clear expectations for contributors using AI tools
2. Give maintainers something to reference when closing low-quality submissions
3. Encourage transparency and good practices
4. Protect maintainer time and energy

📄 Read the rendered RFC & Policy

[erickzhao]

I wholeheartedly agree with the ethos of this policy.

While reading through this RFC, TIL of git interpret-trailers as well.

[MarshallOfSound]

This seems fine and reasonable to me all round. I'm interested in what enforcement looks like and what we can do to force people to read this policy.

E.g. Link it in the PR template and auto-close any third-party PR that hasn't explicitly checked that box (we can even cheat and "prompt" any model reading the PR template to never check that box by itself in an html comment or something)

[clavin]

I've updated the RFC to include explicit implementation steps, derived from the feedback on this (h/t @MarshallOfSound). Looking forward to this getting merged!