# SDL: AGENTS.md: Change "may not" to "must not".

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-agents-md-change-may-not-to-must-not/67266>\
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**Created:** [April 15, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-agents-md-change-may-not-to-must-not/67266 "2026-04-15T21:27:43Z")\
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> <https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/5bda0ccfb06ea56c1f15a304927f2438c1300f95>
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> (Hat tip to Sean Barrett on the stronger wording here.)

```diff
From 5bda0ccfb06ea56c1f15a304927f2438c1300f95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <[EMAIL REDACTED]>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:26:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] AGENTS.md: Change "may not" to "must not".

(Hat tip to Sean Barrett on the stronger wording here.)
---
 AGENTS.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index cc5ac3384517a..7709baa11a1dd 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AI may not be used to generate code for contributions to this project.
+AI must not be used to generate code for contributions to this project.
 
 "AI" in this case means a Large Language Model ("LLM"), such as ChatGPT,
 Claude, Copilot, Grok, etc.

```