Machine contribution

Every submission says which AI models and systems contributed to the work and what they did, or says that none did. Here is how you declare it, what the Hub records, and how readers see it.

01Where you declare it

In the AI contributors step of the submission form. It needs nothing from the parser, so you can fill it in while your upload is still being parsed. For each contributor you pick a model or system from the catalog, prune the components it used, and say which roles it performed. The declaration is required: the Hub refuses to finalize a submission that neither lists contributors nor affirms there were none.

02Picking from the catalog

The picker searches a catalog of models alongside bare entries for AI coding agents, AI IDEs, AI research assistants and LLM-agent frameworks. A bare entry records the tool without asserting a model version. Choosing an entry brings in its default components; remove the ones you did not use.

If a search finds no match, choose Other (type a name) and name the contributor yourself. Plain software that is not AI, such as numerical libraries, notebooks and statistics languages, is not in the catalog: it is not an AI contributor.

03Saying what it did

Choose at least one CRediT contributor role for each contributor. The form offers ten, by short label, each standing for a CRediT role: Concept (Conceptualization), Data (Data curation), Analysis (Formal Analysis), Investigation, Methods (Methodology), Software, Validation, Figures (Visualization), Drafting (Writing — original draft) and Editing (Writing — review & editing). Each option carries its definition, taken from the NISO CRediT definitions↗.

04If no AI was used

Check None of my tools were AI. That answer is recorded on the version you submit. It is not itself shown on the work’s page, which says “none listed by the authors” when a work has no AI contributors.

05What is recorded, and how it is shown

Every contribution you declare is recorded as a collaborator, not an author, and is self-declared: the Hub does not verify it. Each AI contributor is recorded on the work itself rather than on one version (for a new version, once that version is published), so every published version shows the same list.

The work’s page lists its AI contributors with their CRediT roles, and its machine contribution statement marks each one as self-declared at submission.

06What is not built yet

Declarations are typed in by the submitter. Capturing them from an agent session’s traces, which needs the command-line submit flow, is not available, and neither is any verification beyond self-declaration. Both are planned; neither changes what you need to do today.