# Code of Conduct
Santh is a community of engineers building security infrastructure. We are direct about technical substance and considerate about each other.
## Standards
**Expected:**
- Be direct. Be kind. Critique ideas, not people.
- Assume good faith. Other contributors are not your adversary; the bug is.
- Disagree on technical substance - that's how the work gets better. If a conversation is going poorly, walk away and come back tomorrow.
- Credit prior work. If someone else did the thinking, say so.
- When you make a mistake, own it, fix it, and move on.
**Not tolerated:**
- Personal attacks, insults, or demeaning language.
- Harassment in any form (public or private), including unwanted sexual attention.
- Discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or appearance.
- Doxxing or publishing others' private information without explicit permission.
- Sustained disruption of discussions, issues, PRs, or community spaces.
## Scope
This applies to every Santh project space: repositories, issues, PRs, code comments, commit messages, discussion forums, community chat, conference talks, and any other venue where you are participating as a contributor to a Santh project.
## Reporting
If you witness or experience a violation, report it to **`conduct@santh.io`**. Reports are read by the project maintainers and treated as confidential. Include:
- Where it happened (link to the issue, PR, message, or venue).
- What was said or done.
- Anything else you think is relevant.
You will get an acknowledgement within 72 hours. We investigate every report; the response will depend on the severity and pattern.
## Enforcement
Maintainers may, at their discretion, edit or remove contributions that violate this policy, and may warn, suspend, or permanently ban contributors whose behavior is incompatible with the standards above. Decisions are documented internally and the affected contributor is notified.
We will not retaliate against good-faith reports. We may decline to act on bad-faith reports.
## Attribution
This Code of Conduct is written specifically for Santh and is intentionally short. It is informed by the [Contributor Covenant v2.1](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/) but does not replicate it. Where this document is silent, the Contributor Covenant is a useful reference for what reasonable behavior looks like in an open-source community.