Community Standards

Community Standards define the shared agreements that keep the Guardian ecosystem consistent, trustworthy, and legible to contributors at every level — from new policy authors to platform engineers.

They exist because an open-source project grows fastest when contributors can orient themselves quickly. A well-defined policy standard, a predictable documentation structure, and a visible record of platform decisions reduce the cost of contribution and raise the quality floor across the board.

What's here

• Guardian Policy Standards (GPS) — requirements for policies to be accepted into the Methodology Library, covering science-based claims, verifiability, and documentation completeness.

• Guardian System Standards (GSS) — engineering standards for Guardian platform components.

• Documentation Standards — how to write and structure pages in this documentation site, including page type definitions and templates.

• RFCs — design documents capturing ideas and decisions made during platform development, kept here for record keeping.