# Open-Source Review Summary

## Completed In This Pass

- removed tracked notebooks and NCCS/HPC submission assets from the public branch
- removed broken nested package metadata under the original nested package layout
- added a real root packaging surface with `pyproject.toml`, package discovery, and console scripts
- sanitized tracked machine-specific paths, environment prefixes, and maintainer-local references
- rewrote the root README to document the actual supported public surface
- added `CONTRIBUTING.md` and `SECURITY.md`
- fixed MLflow tracking URI handling so local paths and remote URIs both work
- converted several utility scripts away from hard-coded local paths and import-time side effects
- removed legacy project-specific config trees and historical conda environment files from the release branch
- replaced the public canopy example config with a cleaned current schema example
- added a single canonical `environment.yml` for public setup

## Security Review Notes

- no tracked secrets or credentials were found in the retained public surface
- local absolute paths and user-specific machine details were removed from tracked text files
- the public example config now uses placeholders for dataset roots and a neutral MLflow tracking path
- removed cluster scripts and exploratory notebooks that would have widened the accidental disclosure surface
- removed historical project configs that still contained site-specific execution clutter and stale deployment comments
- bandit returned no remaining code findings after replacing assertion-based validation and tightening the repository leak-check script
- a local environment dependency audit found that the pre-existing working environment contains many outdated packages; the package metadata in `setup.py` was updated to require newer minimum versions for the most security-relevant direct dependencies

## Remaining Review Notes

- `meow_ml/src/` still contains legacy runtime code and should be treated as internal compatibility code, not a stable public API
- the public forest canopy example still requires users to point the config at real raster tiles that match the documented on-disk layout
- the approved NOSA release copy is included in `NOSA-GSC-19449-1.pdf`, and the repository notice text has been added to the public README files and main public entrypoints
