From d1ed63344f3800965aa8aa888a9f4f7023b092c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stxkxs <139715017+stxkxs@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:57:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add org-wide community health files and license MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit citature/.github carried only the org profile. This adds the community health files GitHub reads from a .github repository, matching the layout and tone used across the estate's other org repos. ─────────────────────────── Files ─────────────────────────── SECURITY.md — private disclosure via GitHub security advisories, with a scope section written for what citature actually is. The data is public by law and holds no secrets, so the policy leads with integrity and provenance rather than confidentiality: forging a citation, timestamp, or source locator is named as the highest-severity bug class, since re-fetchability from the upstream government source is the product's entire contract. Also scopes the MCP server, actor/ingestion code, and the release supply chain, and explicitly rules upstream record content out of scope as a coverage caveat rather than a vulnerability. Carries a personal-data clause: a surface that resolves or profiles a natural person beyond the public record is a security issue, not a feature. CONTRIBUTING.md — PR-only workflow, squash merges preserving the authored message, CI green before merge. Adds a data-specific bar that generic templates don't cover: every claim keeps its locator, cite the source of record and never an aggregator, date anything that rots, and treat coverage caveats as output rather than footnotes. CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md — Contributor Covenant 1.4, with one project-specific addition: the community holds the same entity-level line the product does, so the issue tracker is not to be used to target or profile a private individual. LICENSE — Apache-2.0, "Copyright 2026 stxkxs", matching the convention already used by nanohype/.github, rackctl/.github, and the estate's public repositories. README.md — repository-level orientation, distinct from profile/README.md which renders on the org page. ───────────────────────── Reach note ───────────────────────── GitHub applies default health files to PUBLIC repositories only. The only other repository in the org today is private, so the immediate reach is this repository. The files land now so the disclosure path already exists when that changes; SECURITY.md states this limitation in its own text rather than leaving it implicit. Co-authored-by: stxkxsbot <275011021+stxkxsbot@users.noreply.github.com> --- CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md | 42 ++++++++++ CONTRIBUTING.md | 42 ++++++++++ LICENSE | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ README.md | 8 ++ SECURITY.md | 53 ++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 347 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md create mode 100644 LICENSE create mode 100644 README.md create mode 100644 SECURITY.md diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4a0f19 --- /dev/null +++ b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Code of Conduct + +## Our pledge + +We pledge to make participation in the citature project a harassment-free +experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, +gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal +appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation. + +## Our standards + +Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment: + +- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences. +- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback. +- Focusing on what is best for the project and the community. + +Unacceptable behavior includes harassment, insulting or derogatory comments, +personal or political attacks, publishing others' private information, and other +conduct that would reasonably be considered inappropriate. + +Because citature works with records about real people and organizations, one +addition is specific to this project: do not use the project's issues, +discussions, or tools to target, profile, or build a case against a private +individual. citature is entity-level by design and the community follows the +same line the product does. + +## Enforcement + +Report unacceptable behavior to the maintainers via a private +[security advisory](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/security-advisories/guidance-on-reporting-and-writing-information-about-vulnerabilities/privately-reporting-a-security-vulnerability) +on this repository. Maintainers will review and respond as promptly as they can, +and will respect the reporter's privacy. + +Maintainers may remove, edit, or reject contributions that violate this Code of +Conduct, and may ban contributors for behavior they judge inappropriate, +threatening, or harmful. + +## Attribution + +Adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org), +version 1.4. diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e29ee6 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Contributing to citature + +Thanks for your interest. citature builds agent-native tools over public US +federal records — the product promise is that every answer ships with the +receipt behind it. + +## Workflow + +- `main` is protected; all changes land through a pull request. Direct pushes + are blocked for everyone, including maintainers. +- Keep PRs focused. The commit message is the record — explain *why*, not just + *what* (the diff shows what). Structured messages are welcome for large + changes. +- CI must be green before merge. +- Merges are squash-merges that preserve the authored commit message. + +## The bar for anything that touches data + +citature's contract is provenance, so changes to retrieval, joins, or output +carry an extra requirement: + +- **Every claim keeps its locator.** A record must stay re-fetchable from the + upstream government source it came from. 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GitHub applies them to every citature repository that doesn't + carry its own, for public repositories only. diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a8bac9 --- /dev/null +++ b/SECURITY.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +# Security Policy + +## Reporting a vulnerability + +Please **do not** open a public issue for a security vulnerability. + +Report it privately via GitHub's [security advisory](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/security-advisories/guidance-on-reporting-and-writing-information-about-vulnerabilities/privately-reporting-a-security-vulnerability) +flow on the affected repository (Security → Report a vulnerability). Include the +affected component, reproduction steps, and impact. + +We aim to acknowledge within a few business days and to coordinate a fix and +disclosure timeline with you. + +## Scope + +citature serves public-domain US federal records through an MCP server and a set +of [Apify](https://apify.com/citature) actors. The underlying data is public by +law and carries no secrets — so the reports we care most about are the ones that +compromise **integrity or provenance** rather than confidentiality: + +- **Provenance tampering** — anything that lets a citation, retrieval timestamp, + or source locator be forged, or that makes a returned record cite a source it + did not come from. citature's entire contract is that a claim can be + re-fetched from the upstream government source; a break in that chain is the + highest-severity class of bug we have. +- **MCP server** — tool-call handling, input validation on tool arguments, + authorization between callers, and anything that lets one caller observe or + affect another's requests. +- **Actor and pipeline code** — command construction, credential handling, and + the ingestion path from the upstream sources (FEC, USASpending, SAM.gov, + Grants.gov). +- **Supply chain** — the release path for actors and the MCP server, and any + dependency that reaches the retrieval or citation layer. + +Out of scope: the content of the upstream federal records themselves. If a +government source publishes something incorrect, that is an upstream data issue +rather than a vulnerability — open a normal issue and we will document it as a +coverage caveat. + +## A note on personal data + +citature is entity-level only and ships no individual-person products. If you +find a surface that resolves or profiles a natural person beyond what the +underlying public record already discloses, report it here — we treat that as a +security issue, not a feature request. + +## Reach of this policy + +This file lives in `citature/.github`, so GitHub applies it as the default to +citature repositories that do not carry their own `SECURITY.md`. That default +covers **public** repositories only; private repositories need the policy in the +repository itself. Today the practical reach is this repository, and the file is +here so the disclosure path already exists when that changes.