A pull request template is a forcing function. It makes the submitter answer questions they'd otherwise skip — what changed, why, how to test it, what could break. Most teams adopted PR templates three to five years ago and haven't touched them since.
AI coding tools broke several assumptions those templates were built on. They assumed the author understood every line they wrote. They assumed the described change was roughly the size of the diff. They assumed test coverage was checked manually. None of those hold when 60% of the diff was generated by a model the author prompted and accepted.
GitIntel generates PR templates that account for AI authorship. They include: an AI tool disclosure field (which tool, rough percentage of the diff), a section for lines the author has personally verified vs lines they've accepted from AI, testing notes that distinguish tests you wrote vs tests the AI generated, and a security review flag for diffs with high AI composition in sensitive file types.
These aren't compliance theater — they're communication tools that help reviewers allocate their attention correctly. Download the template in GitHub-compatible `.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md` format with a single command.