# Community conduct

Sjel is an owner-led project, but its public work should be safe to inspect and challenge. People
should be able to improve it without being mistreated. This policy covers GitHub issues and pull
requests, including reviews and project contact that follows from them.

## Expected conduct

Treat people with respect. Critique the work, not the person behind it. Point to the claim or code
you dispute and explain what evidence would change your view.

Protect privacy as part of the technical work. Do not post personal data, credentials, private
deployment details, or somebody else's messages and logs. Use synthetic evidence where the bug
does not require real data.

Harassment and threats are not accepted. Do not treat someone differently because of who they are,
direct sexual attention at them, try to intimidate them, repeatedly derail the work, or publish
private facts to win an argument.

## Enforcement

The maintainer may edit or remove public content that breaks this policy. A first response may be a
correction or warning. Repeated or serious conduct can lead to limits on future contact and an account
block. Credible threats and targeted harassment can skip the earlier steps, as can exposing
somebody's private life.

## Report a conduct problem

For a public problem that contains no private context, link the specific GitHub item. If the report
itself needs privacy, open a minimal issue titled `Private conduct report requested`. Include no
names or screenshots, and do not quote messages or describe the incident there. The maintainer will
establish a private channel before asking for evidence.

Security vulnerabilities use [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) instead. GitHub's own abuse-reporting and
blocking controls remain available for urgent platform-level concerns.

This policy applies to project spaces and to private contact made in the course of Sjel work. It
does not claim authority over unrelated conduct elsewhere.