Mike Griese
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I think we need to implement a hard rule that PR bodies should be authored by a human and never by a robot. The point of a PR is not only to contribute code and make modifications to the code base, but it is also to convey the learnings from the contributor to the rest of the maintainers. Important part of that process is being able to explain the change in your own words. If a contributor can't explain the change in their own words, then they don't understand what that change does to the codebase. And if the contributor can't understand it, then what hope would the maintainer have? I think we need to implement this as a hard rule when merging PRs. It's not something that we can try to detect or actually have an actual block on PRs for. But we should block PRs with prejudice when we suspect that the body was not authored by a human being. If you want to include the AI generated body in the PR, I think we should allow that with the caveat that the AI text MUST be in a details section. This PR adds a pile of text to all our files that LLMs read to try to enforce this. It removes some of the earlier tooling that would auto- generate PR bodies for fixes. To be clear: I'm not making any commentary on AI usage for code fixes here, nor should we discuss that at this time. The **only** thing I want to discuss here is AI usage in PR bodies.
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
Installation · Documentation · Blog · Release notes
🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
Advanced Paste
Always on Top
Awake
Color Picker
Command Not Found
Command Palette
Crop And Lock
Environment Variables
FancyZones
File Explorer Add-ons
File Locksmith
Grab And Move
Hosts File Editor
Image Resizer
Keyboard Manager
Light Switch
Mouse Utilities
Mouse Without Borders
New+
Peek
PowerDisplay
PowerRename
PowerToys Run
Quick Accent
Registry Preview
Screen Ruler
Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor
Window Hopper
Workspaces
ZoomIt📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.
Microsoft Store
You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store:
WinGet
Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
- User scope installer (default)
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
- Machine-wide scope installer
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
Other methods
There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
✨ What's new?
To see what's new, check out the release notes.
🛣️ Roadmap
For v0.103, we're working on a new Awake flyout, improving Screen Ruler, and continuing to modernize more utilities with WinUI 3.
❤️ PowerToys Community
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
Privacy statement
The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.