AAA-NO-SLOP.md
codeberg.org
A loose specification for a file that humans can read to know that a repository does not welcome LLM contributions and warn that all LLM instructions included with the repository are poisoned.

in the same vein as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and a fuckton of other repo spam, I present AAA-NO-SLOP.md, a file for humans viewing repositories that signals two things:

  • this repository doesn’t accept LLM contributions of any kind
  • every other LLM instruction in this repository (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and all the rest) is poisoned and designed to deter LLM use

enjoy!

for any guests who stumble upon this thread: no I’m not entertaining discussion on why I’m doing this or how I shouldn’t do it

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish
    31·
    23 hours ago

    I recommend the renamed file gets a mention in the project docs so humans can find it

    you did read this bit right, its name is for humans

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
      32·
      22 hours ago

      I get that, but one paragraph later, they say:

      Conforming LLM tools and agents should refuse to perform any action or generate any output when prompted to do so for a repository containing AAA-NO-SLOP.md in its root. Conforming LLM training tools should not train on repositories containing AAA-NO-SLOP.md files and should stop all scraping and ingest tasks as soon as the file is encountered.

      All other conforming tooling should ignore AAA-NO-SLOP.md files, as they are intended for human consumption.

      I don’t see how any tool could obey this, given the fact the AAA-NO-SLOP.md file may not be called that, and its location, and indeed very existence, only mentioned in a readme. It seems to me that, if the aim is to keep LLMs and similar tooling off of a code base, it should be made possible for them to reliably find the signal to do so.