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* Include a description of the proposed changes and how to test them.
* Consider adding the `no-deploy` label if this PR shouldn't be deployed and does not alter the data served by the API.
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- [ ] I have read and understood the [AI Assisted Contribution guidelines](https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-assisted-coding)
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I think we should add more things to this

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## AI assisted coding

Using AI assisted coding tools for auto complete, test generation, etc is allowed so long as a human is the overall primary author of a pull request.
AI assisted coding that will be accepted:

- Auto complete
- Scaffolding for common framework patterns
- Scaffolding for test patternstest generation
- Mass file editing such as tedious repetitive operations

AI changes that will **NOT** be accepted:

- Fully automated code generation
- AI generated comments and responses in code review
- Clear lack of understanding of the change

Contributions from supervised AI assisted coding agents who build the majority (or all of) a change, such as [co pilot tasks](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-a-mission-control-to-assign-steer-and-track-copilot-coding-agent-tasks/), will be accepted only on the following basis:

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3. The human author explicitly calls out that an supervised AI agent created the change when they make a pull request.
4. The human author is prepared to own the change (just like any other change they make) and fix any issues that arise from it.

### Maintainers decision is final

If you cannot sufficiently demonstrate good use of AI tooling we will close your change.

We contribute to this project in our free time. Our time is valuable. Our time is not to be spent doing the thinking for you because you outsourced work to an LLM coding agent.


## Financial contributions

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