Agent Governance Manifest: A Framework for Governing AI-Mediated Contributions in Open-Source Projects
A new preprint introduces the Agent Governance Manifest (AGM), a repository-hosted framework designed to help open-source projects manage and govern AI-generated contributions. In controlled evaluations, AGM improved exact risk-label recovery from 15/37 to 37/38 and increased perceived review support from 3.27 to 6.14 on a 1-7 scale. The framework links contributor-side evidence preparation with maintainer-side verification, aiming to address the challenge of AI agents generating contributions faster than maintainers can assess them.
Why it matters: This work offers a practical governance mechanism for open-source projects to maintain quality and accountability as AI-generated contributions increase.
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