Humans, AI, and this project
Who writes what around here — and how you can always tell.
The book is written entirely by humans
Every sentence of Pro Git — the chapters, sections, sidebars, and captions — is written by its human authors. That is a firm rule of this project, not a preference: the book has named authors and a voice, and the writing is the work. AI agents never compose, rewrite, paraphrase, or "polish" the book's prose.
Agents do help with the mechanical work around the book: search-and-replace fixes (like renaming master to main in examples), generating and wiring up figures, building tooling, research, and planning. The full policy lives inAGENTS.mdin the repository.
Some blog posts are automated
The blog is different. Some posts there exist to communicate project updates — progress reports, site changes, revision milestones — and those are generated by automated agents working on the project.
When a post was written by AI, we make that clear: it carries a"This post was written by AI" banner at the top of the post and a"Written by AI" tag in the post list. Posts written by a human say so too. There is no ambiguity, and no unlabeled machine writing anywhere on this site.
In short
- The book: humans, always.
- The blog: humans or AI — always labeled at the top of the post.