# Repository Agent Guidance

## CodeWhale Stewardship

- Treat community contributors as partners. Good-faith PRs, issue reports,
  repros, logs, reviews, and verification comments are maintainer evidence,
  not queue noise.
- Keep gates warm and dry-run unless Hunter explicitly approves enforcement.
  Gate copy should guide contributors clearly and respectfully.
- Credit every harvested PR, issue report, or comment that materially shaped a
  fix. Preserve authorship when possible; otherwise use mappable GitHub
  noreply `Co-authored-by` trailers from `.github/AUTHOR_MAP`.
- Do not tag, publish, create a GitHub Release, or push release artifacts
  without Hunter approval.
- Use CodeWhale branding while keeping DeepSeek support first-class. Retiring
  legacy `deepseek-tui` names must never read as deprecating DeepSeek models or
  provider support.
- Review PRs from code, tests, linked issues, comments, and check results.
  Never merge, close, harvest, or defer community work from title or labels
  alone.
- Respect concurrent work in the tree. Do not revert or rewrite unrelated
  edits by other people or agents.