TARGET Checklist MCP Server
Copyright 2026 Black Swan Causal Labs

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); see the LICENSE
file. You may not use this software except in compliance with the License.

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Third-party / upstream attribution
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This software operationalizes the TARGET reporting guideline:

    Cashin AG, Hansford HJ, Hernán MA, Swanson SA, Lee H, Jones MD, et al.
    Transparent Reporting of Observational Studies Emulating a Target Trial:
    The TARGET Statement. JAMA 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.13350
    (co-published BMJ 2025;390:e087179).

The encoded specification (target_mcp/specs/*.yaml) re-expresses the *intent* of
each checklist item in original wording and does not reproduce the published
checklist text. Where the published item wording IS reproduced verbatim — the
OFFICIAL_TEXT mapping in target_mcp/render.py, used to project a completed
checklist onto the published form — it is © 2025 Cashin et al. and reproduced
under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
(CC BY-ND 4.0), with attribution. That wording is not covered by the Apache-2.0
grant above and must not be modified when redistributed.

The bundled TARGET logo (target_mcp/assets/target-logo.png) is a trademark of the
TARGET group, included only for the author self-report ("official") view. It is
not licensed for endorsement use and is off by default.
