# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

## Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a
harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible
disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual
identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive,
and healthy community.

## Our Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment:

- Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
- Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
- Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
- Accepting responsibility and apologising to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from them
- Focusing on what is best for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behaviour:

- The use of sexualised language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
- Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email address, without their
  explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

## Data-handling note

This project processes clinical-note text. Even though the bundled dataset is fully synthetic,
treat all note content as if it were real NHS PHI:

- Never paste note text into issues, pull requests, or chat — reference file paths instead.
- Never commit anything under `data/` (it is gitignored).
- Never send patient text or surrogate tokens to external APIs — the `assert_clean()` guarantee
  and the Tavily usage policy both enforce this technically, but contributors must not work around them.
- If you discover a real-data leak in any test fixture, treat it as a security incident: notify the
  maintainer privately rather than opening a public issue.

## Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards and will take
appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behaviour they deem inappropriate,
threatening, offensive, or harmful.

## Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when an individual is
officially representing the community in public spaces.

## Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported to the project
maintainer by opening a confidential issue or by contacting the repository owner on GitHub
(**@chaeyoonyunakim**). All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

## Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org),
version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.