Partners

The record is shaped by the organisations that contribute to it and endorse its practices. Endorsement is recorded per practice, not wholesale: an organisation backs the specific statements it has reviewed.

Contributing organisations

• Helmholtz AI: task force on AI for science; origin of the running best practice model used here.

Joining

The record is designed to aggregate effort, not to compete with local and national initiatives. If your organisation maintains its own guidance on agentic AI in science, there are three ways to connect it, in increasing order of commitment.

1. Submit documents. Strategy papers and reports are distilled into Library entries that cite the original and map it to the practices.
2. Propose and challenge practices. Task forces and working groups can feed their findings in through the issue templates.
3. Endorse practices. After review, an organisation can be listed as endorsing specific practices, which raises the practice's status and the record's weight.

A group can also send one of its members into the editor group. That is a few hours a month, set out in full on Become an editor.

What backing does and does not oblige

Endorsement is per practice. An organisation backs the specific statements it has reviewed and nothing else on the site. There is no membership, no fee, and no agreement to sign.

Contributing and editing oblige no one. An editor from your group acts in their own capacity, and their institution takes no position by virtue of their editing. Endorsement is a separate, deliberate step taken by the organisation itself.

Withdrawal works the same way as endorsement. An organisation can withdraw an endorsement at any time, and the change is recorded like any other. Dated releases keep the earlier state, so the record shows what was backed when.

Credit

Where a practice draws on an organisation's work, the source is cited in the practice's library entry under the issuing body. Endorsements are named on the practice page and carried into the monthly release. Partners are shown prominently on the landing page.

To start a conversation, open a discussion, write to the AI for Science Google Group, or contact the editors (see Governance).