Add v1.0 of the AI-Assisted Contributions Policy

docs/ai-contributions-policy.md

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+# AI-Assisted Contributions Policy for htop
+v1.0, 2026-02-18
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+1.  You **MAY** use AI assistance for contributing to htop, as long as you follow the principles described below.
+
+2.  **Accountability**:
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+        You *MUST* take the responsibility for your contribution.
+
+        Contributing to htop means vouching for the quality, license compliance, and utility of your submission.
+
+        All contributions, whether from a human author or assisted by large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools, must meet the project’s standards for inclusion.
+
+        The contributor is always the author and is fully accountable for the entirety of these contributions.
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+3.  **Transparency**:
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+        You *MUST* disclose the use of AI tools when the significant part of the contribution is taken from a tool without changes.
+
+        You *SHOULD* disclose the other uses of AI tools, where it might be useful.
+
+        Routine use of assistive tools for correcting grammar and spelling, or for clarifying language, does not require disclosure.
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+    -   Disclosures are made where authorship is normally indicated. For contributions tracked in git, the recommended method is an `Assisted-by:` commit message trailer.
+
+    -   Examples:
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+        -   `Assisted-by: generic LLM chatbot`
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+        -   `Assisted-by: ChatGPTv5`
+
+        For contributions outside git commits, disclosure may include document preambles, design file metadata or `Assisted-by:` lines on issues.
+
+4.  **Contribution Evaluation**:
+
+        AI tools may be used to assist human reviewers by providing analysis and suggestions.
+
+        You *MUST NOT* use AI as the sole or final arbiter in making a substantive or subjective judgment on a contribution.
+
+        This does not prohibit the use of automated tooling for objective technical validation, such as CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, or spam filtering.
+
+        The final accountability for accepting a contribution, even if implemented by an automated system, always rests with the human contributor who authorizes the action.
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+This policy has been adapted for htop use from the Fedora policy v1.0 published at <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/policy/ai-contribution-policy/>.
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+The key words “MAY”, “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, and “SHOULD” in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC 2119](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119).

docs/styleguide.md

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 Otherwise it may be closed without merging.
 
 Rebase early. Rebase often.
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+Please check the [AI-Assisted Contributions Policy](ai-contributions-policy.md) for requirements and mandatory disclosure in your commits and PRs if you use AI assistance in creating your work.