AI Code Rating releases three-character disclosure standard
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gregdotca has released the AI Code Rating standard (current version 0.1), using three characters to disclose the use of AI in a codebase: one uppercase letter corresponds to the maintainer's expertise level, one digit corresponds to the proportion of AI-generated code, and one lowercase letter corresponds to the degree of human review. Unlike disclosure methods that give only a single grade, this standard rates these three questions separately. Users generate an ACR.md file via a form and place it in the repository root, then validate it with the accompanying validator; to automatically check on every push, the accompanying GitHub Action can be added.
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AI Code Rating is a proposed standard in which a project places an ACR.md file in its repo root with a three-character rating: an uppercase letter for the maintainer's expertise (A–E), a digit for the share of code written by AI (0–4), and a lowercase letter for how closely a human checked AI-written code (a–e). The site offers a rating form that generates the badge and ACR.md file, a validator, and a GitHub Action, and it lists adopters including aicoderating.com, DomainMOD, Email Health Check, and HomelabAPI. The spec is at version 0.1, and the roadmap covers publishing the spec, tooling, adoption, and proposing that code hosts display the rating.
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