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+# AI Agent Guidelines
+
+AI agents contributing to this repository must read and follow the guidelines in the developer documentation:
+
+[Guidelines for AI-Assisted Development](doc/dev/ai-usage-guidelines.md)
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+# Guidelines for AI-Assisted Development
+
+## Guiding Principle
+
+A human must ultimately take responsibility for all aspects of library code.
+
+## Project Policies
+
+1. **Human Manager Responsibility:** The human manager is responsible for reviewing and fully understanding all contributed code.
+
+2. **Commit Attribution:** Commits may be attributed to an agentic AI tool, but all commit messages should include the `@username` of the human manager who is ultimately responsible for them. For small features, consider squash merges to condense work into a single joint-authored commit to indicate the human associated with any AI contributions.
+
+3. **Pull Request Review Process:** Pull requests involving LLM-assisted code generation or attributed to an agentic AI tool should go through the usual peer review process, with the human manager responsible for the PR completing a pull request code review process first before requesting peer review.
+
+4. **Effort Balance:** The effort contributed by the human manager responsible for LLM-generated code and commits should exceed the effort requested from peer reviewers.
+
+5. **Limits on extent of Agentic AI use:** Agentic AI may be used to perform simple maintenance tasks (e.g., figuring out we need to update a version number) but not to generate new core-library source code.
+
+6. **Energy Safeguards for Agentic AI use:** Agentic AI should not be run automatically without first reaching a consensus among primary developers, and there should be restrictions added to ensure it stops promptly if it is not able to solve a problem.
+
+7. **In-code citations:** Any code that was added via an AI should be clearly marked and ideally include a link to the chat session that generated it.
+
+8. **Standard of oversight:** Contributors and reviewers are expected to have mentally stepped through the code and made sense of it before requesting or approving a review. Exemptions should be requested explicitly where the judged effort tradeoff is not worthwhile. This standard will be subject to further consideration and possible future adjustment.
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 dev/empirical-development-practices
 dev/getting-started
 dev/contribution-guidelines-and-review
+dev/ai-usage-guidelines
 dev/adding-documentation
 dev/guide-to-testing
 ```