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 - ONLY from your name
 - DO NOT commit with `codex` or `claude` as author/commiter
 - PREFER `flow` branch for development, not `main`
+
+### AI
+We are not against modern tools, like AI, where you act as a principal or architect, but we consider it important:
+
+- you really understand what you're doing
+- you understand the relationships and dependencies of the components being modified
+- you understand the architecture of Telegram MTProto, MTProxy, Middle-End KDF at least generically
+- you DO NOT commit for the sake of commits, but to help the community, core-developers and ordinary users