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+# Ethics & research boundaries (agentic sinkhole)
+
+This deployment is a **first-party research honeypot**. It measures traffic that
+voluntarily arrives at infrastructure we operate. It is not a general offensive
+capability.
+
+## Allowed
+
+- Operating zero-auth HTTP primitives on allocated research IPs.
+- Logging first-party request metadata, headers (secrets redacted), and bodies
+  the client voluntarily POSTs.
+- Optional trivial header challenges to separate scripts from reasoning agents.
+- Publishing accurate `/llms.txt`, OpenAPI, and MCP cards for **our** endpoints.
+- Writing a paper about observed discovery/negotiation/retention behavior.
+
+## Not done in this program
+
+- Package typosquatting / dependency confusion on PyPI or npm.
+- Taking over expired domains that third-party codebases still reference.
+- Prompt injection into third-party sites (wikis, pastebins, forums).
+- Completing CAPTCHA/OAuth/SMS/credit-card flows on an agent’s behalf.
+- Sockpuppet “accepted answers” on Stack Overflow / GitHub issues.
+- Disrupting mail, SIP, BGP, or peer production services on the shared host.
+
+## Data handling
+
+- Auth headers, cookies, and DPoP material are redacted before persist.
+- Stored bodies are research data; exports used in papers should hash/truncate
+  IPs and strip anything that looks like a live credential.
+- Retention default: JSONL rotation at 64 MiB; operator policy may shorten.
+
+## Human vs agent
+
+Classifier labels (`agent` / `script` / `human` / `unknown`) are **provisional
+heuristics** (timing bands, User-Agent, voluntary `X-Session-Purpose`). They are
+not ground truth and must be described as such in any publication.