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.