Open Source Philosophy

StackLab is open source by design, not as an afterthought.

What Open Source Means Here

The goal is to build a contributor-friendly engineering platform where people can:

• improve docs
• add labs
• refine templates
• document tradeoffs
• improve contributor systems
• teach through code and writing

Quality Bar

• AI-assisted contributions are allowed.
• Contributors remain responsible for every submitted line.
• Docs must stay aligned with code and product direction.
• Clear naming, maintainability, and architectural fit are part of the quality bar.
• Large low-context AI dumps should be rejected.

Why Discipline Matters

Open-source engineering products become noisy fast when:

• product scope is vague
• docs are not authoritative
• contributors guess at structure
• AI output is accepted without strong review

StackLab should avoid that by making product intent explicit in the docs site itself.