In the interest of fostering an open, welcoming, and inclusive community, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in the ArchiCheck project 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.
ArchiCheck is a human-first project that integrates autonomous AI agents and automated workflows. In our community, we enforce the following code of conduct principles regarding AI collaboration:
- The Human-in-the-Loop Rule: You are fully responsible for any code, documentation, scripts, or comments you submit, even if they were entirely generated by an AI assistant or autonomous agent.
- No Blaming the AI: Shifting blame to an AI system (e.g. "my agent made a mistake," "Copilot generated this bug") is strictly prohibited. If your assistant commits a broken build, leaks secrets, or violates this Code of Conduct, you as the human driver are accountable for remediating the event.
- ArchiCheck gates PR merges behind architectural comprehension quizzes. This is designed to preserve engineering critical thinking, not to gatekeep or exclude contributors.
- Quizzes must remain respectful, educational, and focused strictly on the scoped code changes. Using quizzes to embarrass, exclude, or troll contributors is a violation of our community standards.
- We welcome the use of autonomous agent workflows, but they must operate transparently. All automated comments, check status overrides, and commits must be clearly labeled as agent-driven (e.g., matching the
[bot]suffix format).
Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment include:
- Using welcoming and inclusive language.
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.
- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism.
- Focusing on what is best for the community.
- Showing empathy towards other community members.
Examples of unacceptable behavior include:
- The use of sexualized language or imagery, and unwelcome sexual attention or advances.
- 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.
Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate, fair, and corrective action in response to any behavior they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.
This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and also applies when an individual is officially representing the project or its community in public spaces. Examples of representing our project or community include using an official email address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to the community leaders at [NEEDS CONTEXT: Moderation contact email address, e.g. conduct@archicheck.org]. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.
All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.0, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html.
Feedback and suggestions for our AI-augmented workspace guidelines were inspired by the human-first principles outlined at humanfirstengineering.dev.