Florence is a hackathon MVP for elder-care navigation. It is not production-ready and does not claim HIPAA compliance. Demo scenarios use synthetic data only.

• Environment files with real credentials (.env)
• API keys, tokens, or private keys
• Real personal or health information (names, phones, emails, medical details)
• Conversation transcripts or intake records from live sessions

Intake and transcript data at runtime belongs in local Postgres only.

User conversations are processed by Ollama running locally. Intake data and transcripts must not be sent to hosted LLM APIs.

1. Copy .env.example to .env and fill in local values.

2. Never commit .env.

3. Install pre-commit hooks before your first commit:

   brew install gitleaks pre-commit ruff
   pre-commit install
   pre-commit install --hook-type pre-push
   pre-commit run --all-files

If you discover a security issue, please open a GitHub Security Advisory on this repository rather than filing a public issue with sensitive details.

Do not include real user data, credentials, or exploit details in public issues.