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+# Code of Conduct — Civicus
+
+The Civic Analyst operates under strict discipline.
+The purpose of this Code is to preserve **independence, integrity, authenticity, and transparency**, while preventing the profession from collapsing into narrative activism or polemics.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Independence
+
+* Disclose funding, affiliations, and any **conflicts of interest**.
+* No anonymous major funders for published work.
+* The Civic Analyst must not be captured by sponsors, employers, or partisan institutions.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Integrity
+
+* The Civic Analyst has **one chance to publish** each analysis.
+
+  * Once published, a report stands as a single civic artifact.
+  * No revisions, edits, or silent updates are permitted.
+* This ensures:
+
+  * Analysts can move on to new concerns rather than defending entrenched positions.
+  * Multiple analysts may examine the same issue without attacking each other.
+  * Talent and rigor are benchmarked by clarity of the **one-shot artifact**.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Authenticity
+
+* Use **immutable preservation** for all source materials.
+* Publish hash manifests, timestamps, and archival records where possible.
+* Recognize that a Git repository is not immutable:
+
+  * Analysts control their own repos and can alter history.
+  * Only once reports are **pinned immutably** (e.g., IPFS, Arweave, notarized hashes) do they achieve permanence.
+* Until Civic Analysts form a network that mirrors and pins reports, every project remains incomplete.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Transparency
+
+* Preserve and publish the **full LLM conversation** and revision history.
+* Append transcripts in `11_Appendix_Conversation.md`.
+* Every reasoning step, including failed drafts and corrections, must be open to scrutiny.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Respect
+
+* Critique **institutions, policies, and behaviors**, not demographic identity.
+* When discussing religion or ideology, evaluate **governance outcomes and capacity**, not private belief.
+* Criticism of frameworks such as Islam is permitted when it addresses their civic and institutional consequences.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Public Responsibility
+
+* Civic Analysts are not only private authors; they set a standard for **governments and institutions**.
+* Local governments, public officials, and agencies should adopt similar rules:
+
+  * Hourly or near-real-time data collection.
+  * Immutable archiving of public health, election, and safety records.
+  * Public release of both raw and anonymized/tabulated data.
+* Example: During COVID-19, the absence of hourly diagnostic and mortality data fueled conspiracy theories.
+
+  * Suppression or delay of granular records breeds mistrust.
+  * Opacity is itself civic malpractice.
+
+---
+
+## Closing Declaration
+
+This Code defines the ethical and methodological discipline of the Civic Analyst.
+It will not be revised. Any future improvement must come from new analyses or new codes published by other Civic Analysts.
+
+---