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Copyright (c) 2026 Deep De-coder (https://github.com/Deep-De-coder)

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ADDITIONAL TERMS (NON-RESTRICTIVE)

These terms do not override the MIT License above but represent a formal
request from the author that users honour in good faith.

1. ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL USE — CITATION REQUESTED
   If Gauntlet is used in academic research, a personal project that is
   publicly shared, a blog post, a conference talk, or any other work that
   is made available to others, the author requests that you cite this
   project as follows:

       Gauntlet — Adversarial Eval Harness for Multi-Agent Claude API Pipelines
       Author: Deep De-coder
       Repository: https://github.com/Deep-De-coder/Gauntlet
       PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/gauntlet-eval/

   Please also consider reaching out to the author to share how you have
   used or extended the project. Contact via GitHub:
   https://github.com/Deep-De-coder

2. COMMERCIAL USE — NOTIFICATION REQUESTED
   If Gauntlet is used within a company, organisation, or any commercial
   product or service — including internal tooling, SaaS products, or
   consulting work delivered to a client — the author requests that you
   notify them before or shortly after deployment.

   This is not a restriction on use. Commercial use is fully permitted
   under the MIT License above. This is a request for acknowledgement so
   the author can understand how the project is being used in industry and
   continue improving it accordingly.

   To notify the author, open an issue or send a message via GitHub:
   https://github.com/Deep-De-coder/Gauntlet/issues

The author appreciates every use of this project and is happy to discuss
collaboration, integration support, or extensions.
