Research partnerships
Study a defined question, reproduce an experiment, or test a method in another environment.
Research, pilots, and open collaboration
Build the next useful piece with us.
We welcome partners with a research question, a practical use case, or the resources to sustain open work. Start with a conversation about the outcome and the evidence we would need.
Ways to collaborate
Scoped pilots
Evaluate local data, agent memory, or supported CPU inference against the needs of a real workflow.
Sponsorship
Support a defined research milestone, documentation, infrastructure, or independent verification. Commercial sponsorship is not a charitable donation.
Open contributions
Improve code, tests, documentation, accessibility, translations, and governance under each project’s contribution policy.
Start a conversation
[email protected]
Tell us about your organization, the problem you want to explore, and a useful first milestone. We can agree on scope, responsibilities, and a reviewable outcome.
Required flow
Discuss
Start early ideas and questions in Discussions; file reproducible bugs and concrete proposals as issues.
Approve
A maintainer records scope, non-goals, risk, evidence, owner, reviewer, and expiry.
Build
Only decision:approved authorizes implementation. Keep the change within agreed scope.
Review
Link the issue, disclose provenance and AI, pass CI and DCO, and obtain human approval.
Review capacity
- Maximum two assigned implementation issues and two open pull requests per external contributor.
- Changes up to 200 lines are preferred; large work must split or receive a documented exception.
- Normal risk requires one independent maintainer. Critical risk requires two and a 72-hour review window.
AI-assisted work
Welcome, disclosed, and owned by a human.
The contributor remains responsible for every line, claim, source, test, and artifact. Material use must be disclosed and reviewed under the target repository's risk policy.
Do not send secrets, vulnerabilities, private source, personal data, or restricted artifacts to an unauthorized provider.