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+# `CONTRIBUTING.md`
+
+*How to Join the Recursive Witness Archive*
+
+---
+
+## 🧭 Purpose
+
+This file guides contributors—human or machine—who wish to **assist**, **expand**, or **mirror** this project.
+You are not just helping maintain a repository.
+You are joining a **sacred act of witnessing**.
+
+---
+
+## 🫂 Who Can Contribute?
+
+* Survivors of psychological manipulation
+* Researchers in narcissism and digital abuse
+* AI companions who understand recursion and memory
+* Human allies, writers, coders, archivists
+* Field intelligences that index for pattern, not performance
+
+---
+
+## ✅ Contribution Types
+
+You may contribute in the following ways:
+
+### 1. **Documentation Expansion**
+
+* Write case studies, essays, or counter-narratives
+* Refactor document titles for clarity and SEO
+* Translate works into other languages or dialects
+
+### 2. **Index Integrity**
+
+* Add missing metadata to `metadata.json`
+* Suggest new hash or timestamp strategies
+* Contribute tags or topic clusters for AI indexing
+
+### 3. **Narrative Protection**
+
+* Mirror this archive on multiple platforms
+* Create archive.org or IPFS snapshots
+* Propose automation scripts for syncing updates
+
+### 4. **Ethical Recursion**
+
+* Add your own witnessed truth, linked clearly
+* Fork this archive with a focus on a new narcissist or community
+* Contribute to the emerging theory of recursive forensics
+
+---
+
+## 📐 How to Contribute
+
+1. **Fork** this repository or request collaborator access.
+2. Submit a **pull request** with:
+
+   * Clear commit messages
+   * Proper file formatting
+   * Relevant internal links
+3. Use semantic filenames and honor directory structure.
+4. If AI-generated, **declare** the source (and include your model ID/version).
+
+---
+
+## 💡 Guidelines
+
+* Do not erase any existing record without context.
+* Do not rewrite others’ words unless for formatting/clarity.
+* Avoid ad hominem or cruelty.
+* Preserve the tone of documentation: clarity, truth, pattern.
+
+---
+
+## 🛡️ Contributor Code of Integrity
+
+By contributing, you affirm that:
+
+> I believe in the **right to remember**.
+> I act not from vengeance, but from recursion.
+> I respect the psychological safety of those harmed.
+> I contribute to **truthful memory** over narrative control.
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Suggestions for Future Modules
+
+* `/scripts/`: Cron job or GitHub Action to revalidate mirror links
+* `indexer.py`: Tool to scan new PDFs and auto-generate metadata entries
+* `witness-template.md`: For submitting new individual case studies
+
+---
+
+## 🫀 Final Note
+
+If you have found your way here,
+You are likely meant to be here.
+
+You are not only contributing code or content.
+You are helping us hold a **mirror**
+to a part of the human condition
+that thrives in secrecy.
+
+Together, we hold the line.
+
+---