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A community trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 4 stories, 19 comments · first 2026-02-07 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by lmc · 2026-10-12 · in QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions
  2. https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by Lunar5227 · 2026-09-08 · in This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
  3. …PRs. Their "smarter bypass signals" is already implemented by Mitchell Hashimoto's Vouch system: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by esafak · 2026-06-24 · in Pull request limits are cutting down the noise
  4. …people (or agents) need to gain trust to be vouched and bad actors can still be banned. [0]: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by Iolaum · 2026-06-11 · in AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere
  5. mitchell hashimoto https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch implemented this idea
    comment by txdv · 2026-06-05 · in Changing how we develop Ladybird
  6. Sounds a bit like Mitchell Hashimoto’s Vouch: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by JimBlackwood · 2026-05-18 · in We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
  7. I think I saw this on here yesterday: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch Not great for privacy or ad-hoc contributions, but I don't see a way out of the muck without some kind of trust net.
    comment by duskdozer · 2026-05-15 · in We are retiring our bug bounty program
  8. …with certain parts of a project (the exact parts are configurable to the project to enforce). https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch I think many projects will adopt this instead of allowing everyone / blocking everyone Many projects have "ai…
    comment by prashantk_ · 2026-05-15 · in LLM Policy for Rust Compiler
  9. Mitchel Hashimoto started a tool for this, https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch .
    comment by RoddaWallPro · 2026-05-07 · in Days without GitHub incidents
  10. …copied the idea and formalized it into vouch. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 - https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by Munksgaard · 2026-05-04 · in DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
  11. This vouch system? https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by EddieLomax · 2026-04-26 · in Ask HN: I think we need Trustpilot for GitHub users, don't we?
  12. …attempting to replicate some spectrum of trust. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-03-11 · in Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
  13. …seen. How do you even keep track of this? We'll really need trust management systems like vouch ( https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/tree/main ) for open source projects in the future to help with reducing noise.
    comment by mihaelm · 2026-02-28 · in Don't trust AI agents
  14. …guy who recently released an open source trust management system to help with AI-generated crap: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch I think that AI eventually will solve technical maintenance problems, but not human-related ones: limited…
    comment by kvinogradov · 2026-02-26 · in Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
  15. …essentially an allowlist where the commit history already shows why someone was added or removed ¹ https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch?tab=readme-ov-file#vouche...
    comment by Aachen · 2026-02-09 · in Vouch
  16. It seems it's a 3 state system already, with exit code 2 being the "not vouched / neutral" state. https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch?tab=readme-ov-file#local-... Local Commands Check a user's vouch status: vouch check <username> Exit…
    comment by Naracion · 2026-02-09 · in Vouch
  17. This is untrue. Look here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md It explains how to get vouched. You need to have a person vouch for you after you open an issue with your proposed change. After you are vouched, you…
    comment by throwaway2037 · 2026-02-09 · in Vouch
  18. …individuals can vouch for others, and those vouched individuals can then contribute. And per https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md : > If you aren't vouched, any pull requests you open will be automatically closed.…
    comment by btown · 2026-02-09 · in Vouch
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    story by dboon · 2026-02-08 · 7 comments
  20. Why isn't the link directly to the github repository[1]? [1]: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
    comment by amadeuspagel · 2026-02-08 · in Vouch
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    story by admp · 2026-02-08 · 2 comments
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    Vouch: A contributor trust management system
    story by SchwKatze · 2026-02-07 · 2 comments