CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

# Code of Conduct

agentmemory follows the [Contributor Covenant v2.1](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/).

The short version:

- Be kind. Assume good faith.
- Disagree on the idea, not the person.
- Harassment — in issues, PRs, discussions, or any other project space — is not tolerated.
- Unwelcome behavior gets moderated first by reminder, then by time-out, then by removal.

## Enforcement

Reports go to **ghumare64@gmail.com** with subject `agentmemory CoC`. All reports are confidential.

Responses follow the Covenant's enforcement ladder — correction, warning, temporary ban, permanent ban — and are decided by the project Maintainers listed in [MAINTAINERS.md](./MAINTAINERS.md). Where a Maintainer is a party to the report, that Maintainer recuses.

### Escalation when no impartial Maintainer is available

If every listed Maintainer recuses, or if the project is operating with a single Maintainer and the report concerns that Maintainer, the report is forwarded to an external neutral contact for independent adjudication. The current fallback chain, in order:

1. **Contributor Covenant community ombudsperson** — email `ombudsperson@contributor-covenant.org` (see <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq/>).
2. **Hosting foundation abuse channel** — when agentmemory is accepted into a foundation (see `GOVERNANCE.md`), reports can be routed to that foundation's conduct committee instead. The current contact will be published here at that time.
3. **GitHub Trust & Safety** — for conduct that occurs inside GitHub spaces, the report can also be filed through <https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse>.

The external contact receives the original report verbatim (redacted only of third-party PII unrelated to the incident) and decides the enforcement step. The Maintainer body executes whatever enforcement action the external contact recommends. This ensures no report can dead-end because every internal reviewer is conflicted.

## Scope

This applies to every project space:

- GitHub issues, PRs, discussions, and reviews on this repo.
- Any official chat channel that gets set up (currently none).
- Public representation of the project at conferences, meetups, and on social media.

## Full text

Reproduced verbatim from the Contributor Covenant 2.1 for convenience:

> 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, caste, color, 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.

Full Covenant v2.1 text: <https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/>

## Attribution

Contributor Covenant is licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).