Five teams in the Rust project have adopted a formal policy governing how large language models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust, the project’s main monorepo, Jynn Nelson, the policy’s author, announced on the Inside Rust blog on August 5, 2026. The policy (ratified by the compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams) replaces what Nelson describes as an unpublished “wild west” approach to moderation with a public, written set of rules. The policy is not a project-wide…