Modules created by Claude

[Ilia]

Thanks, Thomas.

@twiederh

What is the position on AI-generated modules, is it possible to add them to the module repository? All I found for Samba is either outdated or just covers sharing.

We don’t welcome AI-generated code from outside contributors. See @Joe’s post for more details on this matter:

Add `CLAUDE.md` to Webmin, Virtuamin, Usermin, authentic theme, and Cloudmin

No. Our use of AI is very restricted and much more heavily reviewed than human contributions (all three of us look at every agent-produced bit of code), and we generally won’t be accepting outside AI-developed code because it’s really hard to review if it’s not designed around being easy to review: Small, specific changes, with test coverage for the change and a description that indicates the original behavior was understood and the new behavior well thought out. As I’ve said, we’re not comple…

That said, if you mean submitting it to the third-party module repository that webmin.com used to host, that’s something to raise with @Jamie. The repository isn’t active right now, though it may return in the future.

Yet, I’m also not convinced AI-generated third-party modules belong in the Webmin module repository at all. If they are ever accepted, they should at minimum be clearly labeled as such, especially when they haven’t been reviewed by a human or were written by someone without solid Perl experience.

@twiederh

Here are some screenshots:

On a side note, from your screenshots it looks like the AI didn’t make proper or full use of the Webmin UI library. I’d suggest pointing your agent at the systemd, grub2 or nftables modules and having it follow their patterns.