# Contributing to Archimedes

Thank you for your interest in Archimedes! We're excited to build a community around this project.

## Current Contribution Policy

At this early stage of the project:

- **We welcome issue reports** for bugs, documentation improvements, and feature requests
- **We are not currently accepting pull requests** as we establish the project's foundation and processes
- **We encourage discussions** in our GitHub Discussions area for questions, use cases, and general feedback

We hope to open the project for code contributions in the future as our processes mature.

## Contributor License Agreement

Before we can accept your first contribution, you'll need to sign our Contributor License Agreement (CLA). This is standard practice for projects with potential commercial applications and is based on the widely-used Apache CLA. The agreement allows us to distribute your contributions under different licenses while ensuring you retain copyright ownership of your work.

When you submit your first pull request, our CLA bot will guide you through the simple electronic signing process.

## Reporting Issues

When reporting issues, please use our issue template and include:
- Clear description of the problem
- Steps to reproduce
- Expected vs. actual behavior
- Version information

## Community Discussions

For general questions, sharing how you're using Archimedes, or discussing potential features, please use our GitHub Discussions area.
