Index

Comprehensive guide to all GitHub Minimum Intelligence documentation.

Start here: README · Before You Begin: Important Information

Core Project Documentation

Document	Description
README	Project overview, quick start, installation methods, configuration, and supported providers.
CONTRIBUTING	How to report bugs, suggest features, submit changes, and set up a development environment.
CODE OF CONDUCT	Community standards and expected behavior.
LICENSE	MIT License.

Document	Description
Before You Begin	Important usage information, precautions, side effects, and the complete governance framework. Read this first.

Document	Description
Security Assessment	Comprehensive security review covering threat model, vulnerability assessment, access control, and supply chain analysis.
Capabilities Analysis	Evidence-based audit of agent capabilities and access scope — code access, secret exposure, cross-repository access, and persistence mechanisms.
Incident Response Plan	Step-by-step procedures for containment, eradication, recovery, and hardening after a security incident.

Six questions define the philosophical and architectural foundation of this project.

Question	Document	Core Inquiry
What?	question-what.md	What is GitHub Minimum Intelligence? A repository-native AI collaboration framework.
Who?	question-who.md	Who speaks, executes, remembers, and governs when the repository becomes the mind?
When?	question-when.md	How Git commits replace ephemeral sessions — memory becomes durable, trust becomes auditable.
Where?	question-where.md	Where intelligence lives — runtime, memory, identity, and authorization.
How?	question-how.md	Issues as input, Actions as runtime, LLM as reasoning, Git as memory.
How Much?	question-how-much.md	How much intelligence can a repository hold? The ceiling is stewardship, not token count.

Overview: questions.md · Architectural thesis: The Repo Is the Mind

Document	Description
The Repo Is the Mind	The architectural thesis — why the repository is the AI's natural habitat, covering What, Where, How, Who, When, and Why.
Questions Overview	Summary table of all six foundational questions.

Document	Location	Description
AGENTS.md	`.github-minimum-intelligence/`	Agent identity — name, personality, and behavioral guidance.
PACKAGES.md	`.github-minimum-intelligence/`	Runtime dependencies and required packages.