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+# Security Policy
+
+This repository ships the official Routeplane Python SDK, published to PyPI as
+**`routeplane`**. It handles **gateway credentials** and constructs every request your
+application sends through the gateway, so we treat security reports here as the
+highest-priority class of issue.
+
+## Reporting a vulnerability
+
+Email **security@routeplane.ai**.
+
+Please include:
+
+- The version affected (`pip show routeplane`).
+- A description of the issue and the component affected (module or function if known).
+- Reproduction steps or a proof of concept.
+- Your assessment of impact, if you have one.
+
+You can also use GitHub's private vulnerability reporting on this repository if you prefer not
+to use email. Please do **not** open a public issue for anything you believe is a vulnerability.
+
+**Never include a real gateway key, provider API key, or customer data in a report.** Redact
+them; we can reproduce from the shape of the request.
+
+## What to expect (coordinated disclosure)
+
+- **Acknowledgement within 72 hours** of your report reaching us.
+- An initial assessment (accepted / needs-more-info / not-a-vulnerability) within 7 days.
+- We ask for a standard **90-day coordinated disclosure window** while we develop, test, and
+  release a fix. We will agree a disclosure date with you and credit you in the release notes
+  (or keep you anonymous — your choice).
+- If we ship a fix sooner, we will coordinate earlier disclosure rather than sitting on the
+  window.
+
+## Scope
+
+**In scope:** the `routeplane` package published from this repository and the CI workflows that
+build it. We are particularly interested in:
+
+- **Credential handling** — a gateway key leaking into logs, exception messages, tracebacks,
+  `__repr__` output, or a file written with loose permissions.
+- **Request construction** — header or URL injection through SDK parameters, or anything that
+  causes a request to be sent to a host other than the configured gateway.
+- **TLS verification** being weakened or bypassable through ordinary use of the public API.
+- **Dependency and supply-chain issues** in what we publish.
+
+**Out of scope:** the Routeplane gateway itself (report those to the same address — they are
+handled outside this repo's process), third-party LLM providers, issues that require an already
+compromised host, and findings that depend on a maliciously modified local config file.
+
+## Bug bounty
+
+We do **not** run a paid bug bounty program. We are a small team and we would rather say so
+plainly than promise rewards we cannot pay consistently. We credit reporters in release notes,
+and we fix confirmed reports fast.
+
+## Supported versions
+
+Security fixes land on the latest published version. During the 0.x series we do not backport
+to older versions — upgrade to the newest release to receive fixes.