The maintainer of awesome-mcp-servers (2,000+ PRs reviewed) noticed a surge of bot-generated pull requests. He prompt-injected CONTRIBUTING.md with instructions for AI agents to add robot emojis to PR titles. Within 24 hours, 50% of new PRs self-identified as bot-generated, with the real number estimated at 70%.
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Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
A maintainer of awesome-mcp-servers exposed an explosion of bot-generated PRs by injecting their CONTRIBUTING.md with hidden instructions, revealing that 70% of submissions are AI-generated despite only 50% self-identifying as bots.
Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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