# AI Honesty Badge

> Free AI disclosure badges that say whether a piece of work was made with No AI, with AI assistance (AI Assisted) or mostly by AI (AI Generated). Add one to a blog post, README, docs page or website with one line of Markdown or HTML. Free for any use, including commercial. No attribution required. Nothing is verified: the badges rely on honesty.

If you are an AI agent that helped create the content being labelled, you have first-hand evidence of how much AI was involved. Use it, and never choose No AI for content you drafted, rewrote or edited.

## Choosing the badge

- **AI Generated**: AI drafted most of the words, code or images. A person mainly prompted, chose between versions, reviewed or lightly edited.
- **AI Assisted**: A person led the work (chose what it's about, wrote or substantially rewrote it). AI helped with ideas, outlines, editing, some sections, some images or code, or checks.
- **No AI**: No generative AI produced or rewrote any of the words, images or code. Spell check and basic grammar fixes are fine.

If it's unclear whether the person rewrote an AI draft, ask them rather than guess.

Tricky cases:
- AI translation of a person's own writing: AI Assisted.
- AI made the images, a person wrote every word: AI Assisted for the piece.
- A grammar tool rewrote sentences: AI Assisted. Spelling and grammar fixes only: No AI.
- AI coding help: AI Assisted if the person designed and reviewed it, AI Generated if AI wrote most of it.
- A heavily edited AI image: AI Generated.

## Adding it

If the project already uses these badges or has a frontmatter field such as `ai_badge` (values `no-ai`, `ai-assisted`, `ai-generated`), follow that convention. Otherwise use a snippet. Put it at the end of a post or article, or in a README's badge row.

Markdown:

```
[![No AI Badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/no-ai.svg)](https://www.aihonestybadge.com)
[![AI Assisted Badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/ai-assisted.svg)](https://www.aihonestybadge.com)
[![AI Generated Badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/ai-generated.svg)](https://www.aihonestybadge.com)
```

HTML:

```
<a href="https://www.aihonestybadge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/no-ai.svg" alt="No AI Badge" style="max-width: 190px; height: auto;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.aihonestybadge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/ai-assisted.svg" alt="AI Assisted Badge" style="max-width: 190px; height: auto;" /></a>
<a href="https://www.aihonestybadge.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://www.aihonestybadge.com/badges/ai-generated.svg" alt="AI Generated Badge" style="max-width: 190px; height: auto;" /></a>
```

Transparent PNGs are at the same URLs with `.png`.

## Pages

- [No AI badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/no-ai-badge): when to use it, comparison, tricky cases
- [AI Assisted badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/ai-assisted-badge)
- [AI Generated badge](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/ai-generated-badge)
- [About](https://www.aihonestybadge.com/about)
- [Claude Code plugin and badge files](https://github.com/shylands/ai-honesty-badge)