# Contributing to dsh-model-jury

Thank you for improving structured cross-model peer review for DeepSeek Harness.

## Before opening a change

- Keep provider credentials outside the repository, fixtures, logs, and artifacts.
- Preserve Round 1 blindness and Round 2 anonymity.
- Keep aggregation deterministic. A model must not become a permanent chairman or silently replace quorum, vote, dissent, or critical-risk policy.
- Keep Model Jury deliberation-only. Do not add automatic code changes, commits, pushes, deployments, or mutation tools to the protocol.
- Use public DSH APIs and provider-neutral routes where available.

## Development

Use Node.js `^22.19.0` or `>=24` and pnpm `10.28.2` or a compatible release:

```sh
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm test
pnpm typecheck
pnpm build
pnpm pack
```

Tests must use fake seats unless a change specifically requires an opt-in real-provider validation. Never put API keys into test fixtures. Real-provider transcripts must contain only visible structured responses and safe metadata.

## Pull requests

Explain the user-visible problem, the resulting behavior, and how you verified it. Keep protocol changes separate from provider or documentation changes when practical. Add a regression test when a bug could confuse anonymous labels, leak provider identity, change quorum behavior, drop dissent, or alter critical-risk handling.

By contributing, you agree that your contribution is licensed under the MIT License.