Making Agent-Mediated Contributions Governable: A Project-Level Governance Manifest for Open-Source AI Collaboration

arXiv:2607.15769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI and coding agents are intensifying a central governance tension in open-source software (OSS): they scale contribution generation faster than maintainers can assess risk, evidence, and accountability. Existing responses improve agent-readability and traceability, but project rules must also organize contribution-specific risk, evidence, accountability, and review-gate states. We theorize this organizational arrangement as project-si

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ethics.ai (20 July 2026), “Making Agent-Mediated Contributions Governable: A Project-Level Governance Manifest for Open-Source AI Collaboration,” evidence record 11735, https://ethics.ai/record/11735 (originally published by arXiv cs.CY).

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