Contributing to counsel
Thank you for your interest in counsel. This repository is part of the SZL Holdings platform — governed AI decision infrastructure for regulated enterprises.
Contribution model
counsel is source-available, proprietary software. The codebase is published for evaluation, audit, and reference. We do not accept unsolicited pull requests at this time. See the repository LICENSE for the full grant.
If you are a partner, customer, or collaborator with a written agreement, your contribution path is coordinated with your account contact. Reach us at partners@szlholdings.com.
How you can engage
We welcome the following without prior agreement:
- Bug reports. Open a GitHub issue with reproduction steps, environment, and expected vs actual behavior.
- Security disclosures. Do not open a public issue. Follow
SECURITY.md— preferred channel is security@szlholdings.com or a private GitHub security advisory. - Questions and feedback. Email stephen@szlholdings.com for product questions, integration requests, or partnership inquiries.
- Documentation corrections. Small typo / link / factual fixes to public docs are welcome via PR. Please open an issue first describing the change.
What we expect from contributors
- Adherence to the Code of Conduct.
- For any contribution merged into this repository, you grant SZL Holdings, LLC a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, modify, and redistribute the contribution under the repository's license. By submitting a PR you confirm you have the right to make this grant.
- Honest disclosure: do not submit code derived from third-party sources without proper attribution and a compatible license.
Reporting a problem
| Channel | Use it for |
|---|---|
| GitHub issues | Bugs, documentation gaps, reproducible defects |
| security@szlholdings.com | Security vulnerabilities (private) |
| stephen@szlholdings.com | Product, partnership, licensing |
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Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)
All commits must carry a Developer Certificate of Origin sign-off per DCO v1.1. Add with:
git commit -s -m "your commit message"
# Produces: Signed-off-by: Name <email>
Branch naming convention
feat/<scope>/<short-description> # New functionality
fix/<scope>/<short-description> # Bug fix
docs/<short-description> # Documentation only
chore/<short-description> # Maintenance, dependencies