# Governance

Agent Smith is an open source project. This page says who decides what, and how
anyone else gets a say. It is a draft and will grow with the project.

## Project lead

Holger Leichsenring created Agent Smith and leads it. As its creator and owner he
has the final say on the project's direction, on releases and on licensing.

## Maintainers

There are no maintainers besides the project lead yet. Someone becomes a
maintainer through sustained contributions over time and an invitation from the
project lead. A maintainer reviews and merges pull requests in the areas they
know; the project lead's final say stays as described above.

## How decisions are made

Work arrives as a spec under `.agentsmith/specs/`, written before any code
exists, and every non-obvious choice is recorded with the alternative it beat in
`.agentsmith/decisions/`. A proposal is therefore a spec, and a decision is an
entry in that log, open for anyone to read in the repository.

The teams that run Agent Smith shape its roadmap: their tickets, the reports of
their runs, and the [issues](https://github.com/holgerleichsenring/agent-smith/issues)
they open are what the next specs are cut from.

## Professional services

[45level](https://45level.com) offers professional services, onboarding and
maintenance contracts for Agent Smith. 45level is a partner of the project and
holds no ownership of it.

## Contributing

How to propose and land a change is in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).