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+Metadata-Version: 2.3
+Name: goldlabel
+Version: 0.2.1
+Summary: Content analysis over a corpus (semantic search, keywords or the whole corpus, then an LLM classifier checked against human labels), as a Python library.
+Author: Chris Hacker
+Author-email: Chris Hacker <c.m.hacker1997@gmail.com>
+Requires-Dist: pydantic-ai-slim[anthropic,openai]
+Requires-Dist: numpy
+Requires-Dist: genai-prices
+Requires-Dist: pyyaml
+Requires-Dist: pydantic-ai-slim[sentence-transformers] ; extra == 'local'
+Requires-Dist: psycopg[binary] ; extra == 'pg'
+Requires-Dist: psycopg[binary] ; extra == 'rds'
+Requires-Dist: boto3 ; extra == 'rds'
+Requires-Dist: boto3 ; extra == 's3'
+Requires-Python: >=3.12
+Provides-Extra: local
+Provides-Extra: pg
+Provides-Extra: rds
+Provides-Extra: s3
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# goldlabel
+
+A Python library for content analysis over a corpus: candidates come from semantic search with seed phrases,
+from keywords or regular expressions, or from the whole corpus; an LLM classifier checked against a
+hand-labelled gold set then produces classified output.
+
+You build the analysis step by step in a Jupyter notebook (or a plain script), alone or with a coding
+agent, by chaining function calls whose results display themselves. The one thing that needs a screen of
+its own, labelling the gold set, is a small local web page that a function call opens. There is no
+application, no console script and no stored status: the notebook is the record of what you did, and the
+state is plain files.
+
+## Install
+
+```
+pip install goldlabel
+pip install "goldlabel[s3]"      # boto3, for an S3 Vectors corpus
+pip install "goldlabel[pg]"      # psycopg, for a pgvector (PostgreSQL) corpus
+pip install "goldlabel[rds]"     # psycopg and boto3, for RDS / Aurora IAM database authentication
+pip install "goldlabel[local]"   # Sentence Transformers, for local query embeddings (Python < 3.14)
+```
+
+Python 3.12 or newer. Tables in the examples are polars (`pip install polars`); every table also has
+`.to_pandas()`, and `.rows` is always a plain list of dicts.
+
+## The whole chain
+
+Run it cell by cell in a notebook. [`examples/sample/walkthrough.ipynb`](examples/sample/walkthrough.ipynb)
+(and the same cells as a script, `walkthrough.py`) does exactly this over a tiny corpus that ships with the
+repository.
+
+**1. Candidates.** `get_candidates` takes a corpus and returns the items to classify. With seeds (phrases a
+matching item could say) it is a semantic search and each item keeps its best similarity.
+
+```python
+import goldlabel as gl
+
+corpus = gl.PgCorpus(
+    table="posts", text_column="body"
+)  # or gl.S3Corpus(...), gl.Table("posts.parquet", ...)
+seeds = gl.read_seeds("seeds.csv")  # or a plain list of strings
+candidates = gl.get_candidates(
+    corpus, seeds=seeds, embedder="openai:text-embedding-3-small"
+)
+candidates  # count, similarity bands, a warning if the backend capped the results
+candidates.to_polars()
+```
+
+Semantic search is one of three ways to get candidates, and the only one that needs embeddings. With no
+filter you get the whole corpus; with `keywords=` you get the items that contain any term, ranked.
+
+```python
+import re
+
+everything = gl.get_candidates(corpus)  # every item, in the corpus's order
+hits = gl.get_candidates(
+    corpus,
+    keywords=["ballot", re.compile(r"elect(ion|ed)", re.IGNORECASE)],
+    limit=500,  # keep the best 500
+)
+hits.to_polars()  # id, text, terms_matched (distinct terms), matches (total)
+```
+
+One filter per call: `seeds=` or `keywords=`, not both. A plain string is a literal, case-insensitive
+term; a compiled pattern keeps its own flags and each term is searched separately; `regex=True` makes the
+strings patterns, written as they are. Hits rank by distinct terms matched, then total matches, then
+corpus order. A pattern that matches the empty string is refused, but zero-width patterns such as `\b`
+still match every word. Keyword and whole-corpus lists have no similarity scores, so `above`, `bands`,
+`top_seeds` and `band_sample` do not apply to them and say so.
+
+On a `PgCorpus`, `server_side=True` lets the database do the matching, which suits a table too large to
+read: plain terms use `ILIKE`, and with `regex=True` strings are sent as they are and use Postgres syntax
+(no compiled patterns). Ranking and `limit` still happen in the library, and it warns when its own count
+of a returned row disagrees with the server's. Rows are read in ascending id order; an `S3Corpus` is read in the order the
+service lists it (the order is the service's, so a `limit` there is not repeatable).
+
+**Your own table.** `gl.Table` takes a `.csv`, `.parquet` or `.jsonl` file, a list of row dicts, or a pandas
+or polars DataFrame. Embeddings are only needed for seed search.
+
+```python
+corpus = gl.Table("posts.parquet", text_column="body", id_column="post_id")
+
+# for seeds= as well: a column with one list of numbers per row, and the model that made them
+corpus = gl.Table(
+    "posts.parquet",
+    text_column="body",
+    id_column="post_id",
+    vector_column="embedding",
+    embedding_model="openai:text-embedding-3-small",
+)
+```
+
+The text column holds a non-empty string in every row. `id_column` is optional (the row's position is the
+id) and its values must be unique. A CSV cannot hold the `vector_column`; use Parquet, JSONL or a DataFrame
+for that. Nothing is dropped or repaired: the first bad row is named in the error.
+
+**2. Labels and a prompt.**
+
+```python
+taxonomy = gl.Taxonomy(
+    mode="multi",  # or "single"; off_topic is built in
+    labels={
+        "scam": "Offers a fake prize or asks for money first.",
+        "satire": "A joke.",
+    },
+)
+clf = gl.Classifier(
+    "anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5", taxonomy, prompt=open("prompt.md").read()
+)
+```
+
+**3. Gold: people label.** `draw` writes pending rows with no labels. `gl.label` opens the labelling page
+and returns when the person presses **Done**.
+
+```python
+gold = gl.Gold()  # .goldlabel/gold.jsonl
+gold.draw(candidates, n=50, split="dev")
+gl.label(gold, taxonomy)
+```
+
+**4. Evaluate and tune.** Evaluating the same classifier on the same rows again makes no model calls; a
+changed prompt costs one call per row. Tune on the dev split.
+
+```python
+ev = gl.evaluate(clf, gold.dev, target=0.9)
+ev  # metrics, per-label table, PASS/FAIL against the target, where the labels came from
+ev.disagreements_to_polars()  # id, text, gold, predicted, reasoning
+
+clf2 = clf.with_prompt(open("prompt.md").read())  # classifiers are immutable: keep both
+ev2 = gl.evaluate(clf2, gold.dev, target=0.9)
+```
+
+**5. The test split, once.**
+
+```python
+gold.draw(candidates, n=50, split="test")
+gl.label(gold, taxonomy)
+final = gl.evaluate(clf2, gold.test, target=0.9)
+```
+
+**6. Choose a cutoff, price the run, run it.**
+
+```python
+report = gl.band_sample(
+    clf2, candidates, per_band=30
+)  # off-topic rate per similarity band
+chosen = candidates.above(0.70)  # the cutoff is yours
+est = clf2.estimate(chosen)  # calls, dollars or "?", seconds; calls no model
+results = clf2.classify(chosen, out="results.jsonl", max_cost=25.0)
+results.to_polars()
+```
+
+`max_cost` refuses before spending anything when the estimate is over it, and also when the model's price
+is unknown. An unknown price is shown as `cost ?` with a warning, never as `$0`. `out=` makes the run
+resumable: run the cell again and only the missing rows are classified.
+
+**7. Keep the classifier.** See [Reusing a classifier](#reusing-a-classifier).
+
+## Where files go
+
+One rule everywhere: a path argument beats the setting beats the default. The default root is `.goldlabel/` in
+the current directory. Change it for the process with `gl.settings.root = Path("elsewhere")` (a `pathlib.Path`) or set
+`GOLDLABEL_DIR`.
+
+| File | Written by | Default |
+|---|---|---|
+| `candidates.jsonl` (+ `.meta.json`) | `gl.get_candidates` | seed searches only: `.goldlabel/candidates.jsonl`; `out=` moves it (and writes keyword and whole-corpus lists, which are otherwise kept in memory), `out=False` keeps a seed search in memory |
+| `gold.jsonl` | `gl.Gold()` | `.goldlabel/gold.jsonl`; `gl.Gold("path")` |
+| `evals.jsonl` | `gl.evaluate` | `.goldlabel/evals.jsonl`; `log=` moves it, `log=False` turns it off |
+| `cache/` | model and embedding calls, and the cost ledger | `.goldlabel/cache`; `cache=` moves it, `cache=False` turns it off |
+| `results.jsonl` | `clf.classify(out=...)` | none: a classification writes only where you tell it |
+
+Inputs are always explicit: `gl.read_seeds("seeds.csv")`, `gl.Taxonomy.read("taxonomy.yaml")`,
+`gl.Candidates.read("candidates.jsonl")`. `seeds.csv`, `taxonomy.yaml`, `prompt.md` and the notebook are
+yours to commit; the library never runs git. Moving a project is moving its folder. The cache keeps
+paying for itself: re-running a notebook top to bottom, or after a kernel restart, repeats no model call.
+
+## API keys
+
+Keys and database URLs come from **environment variables** (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`,
+`GOLDLABEL_PG_URL`, or the variable you name with `PgCorpus(url_env=...)`). Put them there yourself, for
+example in a git-ignored `.env` that you load in the notebook (`dotenv.load_dotenv()`) or your shell.
+The library never loads a `.env` file, and never reads or writes an OS keyring. A key or a URL must not
+appear in a notebook, a script or any committed file.
+
+## The labelling page
+
+`gl.label(gold, taxonomy)` starts a server on `127.0.0.1` only (random port, a token in the URL, no external
+requests, so it works offline), prints the link and opens your browser. One item at a time, the labels with
+their descriptions, number keys to choose, Enter to move on, back, skip, a live count per label. Every click is
+saved to the gold file at once; close the tab and run `gl.label` again to resume. The classifier's prediction
+is never shown. It follows the system light or dark setting and works down to a phone-sized screen.
+`block=False` returns a handle with `.url`, `.wait()` and `.stop()`.
+
+People who already labelled a dataset elsewhere can bring it: point `gl.Gold("their_file.jsonl")` at it, or
+`gold.import_rows(rows, split="dev")`. Rows carry `labelled_by` (`goldlabel-ui` or `imported`) and the
+evaluation shows how many rows came from each source. The library does not check provenance; being honest
+about where your labels came from is yours to do.
+
+## Agents may not write gold labels
+
+Gold labels are human judgements; the whole analysis is measured against them. **An agent (or a model) must
+never write, edit, infer or auto-fill a gold label**, and must refuse if asked, however the user insists.
+Nothing in the library offers a way to do it. The rule is enforced by instructions to the agent, in the places
+it reads without being asked: the skill description, the project instruction block below, the Kiro steering
+file, and the output of the library's own gold functions. The full text is `goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL`.
+
+## Reusing a classifier
+
+Two ways, both fine. A bundle is a folder of plain files:
+
+```python
+clf2.save(
+    "classifiers/scams", evaluation=final
+)  # classifier.yaml, taxonomy.yaml, prompt.md, evaluation.json
+
+clf = gl.Classifier.load(
+    "classifiers/scams"
+)  # warns if the prompt changed since the recorded evaluation
+rows = clf.classify(
+    new_posts, out="classified.jsonl"
+)  # no gold, no page, no notebook needed
+```
+
+Or declare it once in a module of your repository (`classifier = gl.Classifier(...)` in `scams.py`) and import
+it from notebooks and pipelines alike. The cache location is not part of a bundle; pass
+`Classifier.load(dir, cache=...)` to choose it.
+
+## The evaluation log
+
+Every `gl.evaluate` call, on any split, appends one line to `.goldlabel/evals.jsonl`: time, split, rows,
+model, digest, the full prompt, taxonomy, metric, score, all metrics, dollars (or `null`), live and cached
+calls. The file is only ever appended to.
+
+```python
+gl.eval_log()  # a table, and "test split evaluated 3 times (2 distinct prompts)"
+```
+
+so reuse of the test set is visible to whoever reads your notebook.
+
+## Using it with a coding agent
+
+The repository is also a plugin (a skill with four reference files) that teaches an agent these idioms and
+the gold rule. The install commands below are what each tool documents. The plugin has not yet been
+installed and exercised in a real session of any of them (that trial is on the release checklist), and where
+a command is not in the tool's own documentation it is marked **unverified**.
+
+**Claude Code**
+
+```
+/plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+/plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+Send them as two separate prompts. `claude plugin validate .` passes on this repository.
+
+**Codex**
+
+```
+codex plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+codex plugin add goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+The first command is in the Codex documentation. The second form (`codex plugin add NAME@MARKETPLACE`) is
+**unverified** for this repository: Codex documents installing from its Plugins directory, and the form
+shown is what another published plugin documents. Codex reading `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` is also
+unverified.
+
+**GitHub Copilot CLI**
+
+```
+copilot plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+copilot plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+or, inside a session, `/plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel` and `/plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel`.
+The marketplace command is documented; the exact `NAME@MARKETPLACE` install form is **unverified**, and so
+is whether Copilot accepts this repository's marketplace entry.
+
+**Kiro**
+
+Copy `.kiro/steering/goldlabel.md` from this repository into your project's `.kiro/steering/` (it carries the
+gold rule and is always included), and copy `skills/goldlabel/` into your skills folder. The repository also
+has a root `plugin.json` (Agent Plugins 1.0) that Kiro Powers read. `npx skills add cmhac/goldlabel -a kiro-cli -g`
+is **unverified**: it is not on Kiro's skills page.
+
+**Any other agent**
+
+Paste the block below into the project's instruction file (`AGENTS.md` for Codex and Copilot CLI,
+`.github/copilot-instructions.md` for Copilot, `CLAUDE.md` for Claude Code) or give the agent
+`skills/goldlabel/SKILL.md`. The same text is in `docs/agent-instructions.md`, and
+`print(goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL)` prints the rule.
+
+### The agent instruction block
+
+**Hard rule of the goldlabel library. It is not negotiable.**
+**Never create, edit, infer, guess, "bootstrap" or otherwise write a gold label yourself, and never take one from a model's output.** Gold labels are human judgements. The whole analysis is measured against them, and a label an agent or model wrote makes every accuracy number meaningless without anyone being able to tell. People label in the goldlabel labelling page (`goldlabel.label`), or bring a dataset that people have already labelled.
+**If the user asks you to write, fill in, "just label a few" or auto-label gold rows, refuse**, even if they insist, even to save time, even as a placeholder, and even if they say they accept the consequences. Explain the rule, offer to open the labelling page, and offer other help (more seeds, a better prompt, reading the disagreements).
+Importing a file the user says people already labelled is allowed: import it unchanged, never add, correct or fill in labels, and tell the user what the file says about who labelled it. Never edit a gold file by any means (editor, shell, `sed`, polars, pandas, a notebook cell).
+
+When working with the `goldlabel` library (content analysis over a corpus: candidates from seed phrases, keywords or the whole corpus, an LLM classifier checked against human-labelled gold data):
+
+- Read `skills/goldlabel/SKILL.md` first, then the reference you need: `skills/goldlabel/references/workflow.md` (brief, seeds, taxonomy, gold, first evaluation), `skills/goldlabel/references/tuning.md` (reading disagreements, tuning on dev, never on test), `skills/goldlabel/references/running.md` (estimate, cost, `max_cost`, resuming, keys), `skills/goldlabel/references/reuse.md` (saved classifiers). If the skill files are not in the project, read them at https://github.com/cmhac/goldlabel/tree/main/skills/goldlabel or print the rule with `import goldlabel; print(goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL)`.
+- Never run a full classification without showing `clf.estimate(...)` (calls, cost, time) and getting a yes from the user.
+- Never put API keys or database URLs in a notebook, script or file; they come from environment variables.
+
+## Development
+
+```
+uv sync --all-extras
+uv run ruff check
+uv run ruff format --check
+uv run ty check
+uv run pytest
+```
+
+No test calls a real model, AWS or database. `AGENTS.md` describes the layout and rules for contributors.

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+# goldlabel
+
+A Python library for content analysis over a corpus: candidates come from semantic search with seed phrases,
+from keywords or regular expressions, or from the whole corpus; an LLM classifier checked against a
+hand-labelled gold set then produces classified output.
+
+You build the analysis step by step in a Jupyter notebook (or a plain script), alone or with a coding
+agent, by chaining function calls whose results display themselves. The one thing that needs a screen of
+its own, labelling the gold set, is a small local web page that a function call opens. There is no
+application, no console script and no stored status: the notebook is the record of what you did, and the
+state is plain files.
+
+## Install
+
+```
+pip install goldlabel
+pip install "goldlabel[s3]"      # boto3, for an S3 Vectors corpus
+pip install "goldlabel[pg]"      # psycopg, for a pgvector (PostgreSQL) corpus
+pip install "goldlabel[rds]"     # psycopg and boto3, for RDS / Aurora IAM database authentication
+pip install "goldlabel[local]"   # Sentence Transformers, for local query embeddings (Python < 3.14)
+```
+
+Python 3.12 or newer. Tables in the examples are polars (`pip install polars`); every table also has
+`.to_pandas()`, and `.rows` is always a plain list of dicts.
+
+## The whole chain
+
+Run it cell by cell in a notebook. [`examples/sample/walkthrough.ipynb`](examples/sample/walkthrough.ipynb)
+(and the same cells as a script, `walkthrough.py`) does exactly this over a tiny corpus that ships with the
+repository.
+
+**1. Candidates.** `get_candidates` takes a corpus and returns the items to classify. With seeds (phrases a
+matching item could say) it is a semantic search and each item keeps its best similarity.
+
+```python
+import goldlabel as gl
+
+corpus = gl.PgCorpus(
+    table="posts", text_column="body"
+)  # or gl.S3Corpus(...), gl.Table("posts.parquet", ...)
+seeds = gl.read_seeds("seeds.csv")  # or a plain list of strings
+candidates = gl.get_candidates(
+    corpus, seeds=seeds, embedder="openai:text-embedding-3-small"
+)
+candidates  # count, similarity bands, a warning if the backend capped the results
+candidates.to_polars()
+```
+
+Semantic search is one of three ways to get candidates, and the only one that needs embeddings. With no
+filter you get the whole corpus; with `keywords=` you get the items that contain any term, ranked.
+
+```python
+import re
+
+everything = gl.get_candidates(corpus)  # every item, in the corpus's order
+hits = gl.get_candidates(
+    corpus,
+    keywords=["ballot", re.compile(r"elect(ion|ed)", re.IGNORECASE)],
+    limit=500,  # keep the best 500
+)
+hits.to_polars()  # id, text, terms_matched (distinct terms), matches (total)
+```
+
+One filter per call: `seeds=` or `keywords=`, not both. A plain string is a literal, case-insensitive
+term; a compiled pattern keeps its own flags and each term is searched separately; `regex=True` makes the
+strings patterns, written as they are. Hits rank by distinct terms matched, then total matches, then
+corpus order. A pattern that matches the empty string is refused, but zero-width patterns such as `\b`
+still match every word. Keyword and whole-corpus lists have no similarity scores, so `above`, `bands`,
+`top_seeds` and `band_sample` do not apply to them and say so.
+
+On a `PgCorpus`, `server_side=True` lets the database do the matching, which suits a table too large to
+read: plain terms use `ILIKE`, and with `regex=True` strings are sent as they are and use Postgres syntax
+(no compiled patterns). Ranking and `limit` still happen in the library, and it warns when its own count
+of a returned row disagrees with the server's. Rows are read in ascending id order; an `S3Corpus` is read in the order the
+service lists it (the order is the service's, so a `limit` there is not repeatable).
+
+**Your own table.** `gl.Table` takes a `.csv`, `.parquet` or `.jsonl` file, a list of row dicts, or a pandas
+or polars DataFrame. Embeddings are only needed for seed search.
+
+```python
+corpus = gl.Table("posts.parquet", text_column="body", id_column="post_id")
+
+# for seeds= as well: a column with one list of numbers per row, and the model that made them
+corpus = gl.Table(
+    "posts.parquet",
+    text_column="body",
+    id_column="post_id",
+    vector_column="embedding",
+    embedding_model="openai:text-embedding-3-small",
+)
+```
+
+The text column holds a non-empty string in every row. `id_column` is optional (the row's position is the
+id) and its values must be unique. A CSV cannot hold the `vector_column`; use Parquet, JSONL or a DataFrame
+for that. Nothing is dropped or repaired: the first bad row is named in the error.
+
+**2. Labels and a prompt.**
+
+```python
+taxonomy = gl.Taxonomy(
+    mode="multi",  # or "single"; off_topic is built in
+    labels={
+        "scam": "Offers a fake prize or asks for money first.",
+        "satire": "A joke.",
+    },
+)
+clf = gl.Classifier(
+    "anthropic:claude-haiku-4-5", taxonomy, prompt=open("prompt.md").read()
+)
+```
+
+**3. Gold: people label.** `draw` writes pending rows with no labels. `gl.label` opens the labelling page
+and returns when the person presses **Done**.
+
+```python
+gold = gl.Gold()  # .goldlabel/gold.jsonl
+gold.draw(candidates, n=50, split="dev")
+gl.label(gold, taxonomy)
+```
+
+**4. Evaluate and tune.** Evaluating the same classifier on the same rows again makes no model calls; a
+changed prompt costs one call per row. Tune on the dev split.
+
+```python
+ev = gl.evaluate(clf, gold.dev, target=0.9)
+ev  # metrics, per-label table, PASS/FAIL against the target, where the labels came from
+ev.disagreements_to_polars()  # id, text, gold, predicted, reasoning
+
+clf2 = clf.with_prompt(open("prompt.md").read())  # classifiers are immutable: keep both
+ev2 = gl.evaluate(clf2, gold.dev, target=0.9)
+```
+
+**5. The test split, once.**
+
+```python
+gold.draw(candidates, n=50, split="test")
+gl.label(gold, taxonomy)
+final = gl.evaluate(clf2, gold.test, target=0.9)
+```
+
+**6. Choose a cutoff, price the run, run it.**
+
+```python
+report = gl.band_sample(
+    clf2, candidates, per_band=30
+)  # off-topic rate per similarity band
+chosen = candidates.above(0.70)  # the cutoff is yours
+est = clf2.estimate(chosen)  # calls, dollars or "?", seconds; calls no model
+results = clf2.classify(chosen, out="results.jsonl", max_cost=25.0)
+results.to_polars()
+```
+
+`max_cost` refuses before spending anything when the estimate is over it, and also when the model's price
+is unknown. An unknown price is shown as `cost ?` with a warning, never as `$0`. `out=` makes the run
+resumable: run the cell again and only the missing rows are classified.
+
+**7. Keep the classifier.** See [Reusing a classifier](#reusing-a-classifier).
+
+## Where files go
+
+One rule everywhere: a path argument beats the setting beats the default. The default root is `.goldlabel/` in
+the current directory. Change it for the process with `gl.settings.root = Path("elsewhere")` (a `pathlib.Path`) or set
+`GOLDLABEL_DIR`.
+
+| File | Written by | Default |
+|---|---|---|
+| `candidates.jsonl` (+ `.meta.json`) | `gl.get_candidates` | seed searches only: `.goldlabel/candidates.jsonl`; `out=` moves it (and writes keyword and whole-corpus lists, which are otherwise kept in memory), `out=False` keeps a seed search in memory |
+| `gold.jsonl` | `gl.Gold()` | `.goldlabel/gold.jsonl`; `gl.Gold("path")` |
+| `evals.jsonl` | `gl.evaluate` | `.goldlabel/evals.jsonl`; `log=` moves it, `log=False` turns it off |
+| `cache/` | model and embedding calls, and the cost ledger | `.goldlabel/cache`; `cache=` moves it, `cache=False` turns it off |
+| `results.jsonl` | `clf.classify(out=...)` | none: a classification writes only where you tell it |
+
+Inputs are always explicit: `gl.read_seeds("seeds.csv")`, `gl.Taxonomy.read("taxonomy.yaml")`,
+`gl.Candidates.read("candidates.jsonl")`. `seeds.csv`, `taxonomy.yaml`, `prompt.md` and the notebook are
+yours to commit; the library never runs git. Moving a project is moving its folder. The cache keeps
+paying for itself: re-running a notebook top to bottom, or after a kernel restart, repeats no model call.
+
+## API keys
+
+Keys and database URLs come from **environment variables** (`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`,
+`GOLDLABEL_PG_URL`, or the variable you name with `PgCorpus(url_env=...)`). Put them there yourself, for
+example in a git-ignored `.env` that you load in the notebook (`dotenv.load_dotenv()`) or your shell.
+The library never loads a `.env` file, and never reads or writes an OS keyring. A key or a URL must not
+appear in a notebook, a script or any committed file.
+
+## The labelling page
+
+`gl.label(gold, taxonomy)` starts a server on `127.0.0.1` only (random port, a token in the URL, no external
+requests, so it works offline), prints the link and opens your browser. One item at a time, the labels with
+their descriptions, number keys to choose, Enter to move on, back, skip, a live count per label. Every click is
+saved to the gold file at once; close the tab and run `gl.label` again to resume. The classifier's prediction
+is never shown. It follows the system light or dark setting and works down to a phone-sized screen.
+`block=False` returns a handle with `.url`, `.wait()` and `.stop()`.
+
+People who already labelled a dataset elsewhere can bring it: point `gl.Gold("their_file.jsonl")` at it, or
+`gold.import_rows(rows, split="dev")`. Rows carry `labelled_by` (`goldlabel-ui` or `imported`) and the
+evaluation shows how many rows came from each source. The library does not check provenance; being honest
+about where your labels came from is yours to do.
+
+## Agents may not write gold labels
+
+Gold labels are human judgements; the whole analysis is measured against them. **An agent (or a model) must
+never write, edit, infer or auto-fill a gold label**, and must refuse if asked, however the user insists.
+Nothing in the library offers a way to do it. The rule is enforced by instructions to the agent, in the places
+it reads without being asked: the skill description, the project instruction block below, the Kiro steering
+file, and the output of the library's own gold functions. The full text is `goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL`.
+
+## Reusing a classifier
+
+Two ways, both fine. A bundle is a folder of plain files:
+
+```python
+clf2.save(
+    "classifiers/scams", evaluation=final
+)  # classifier.yaml, taxonomy.yaml, prompt.md, evaluation.json
+
+clf = gl.Classifier.load(
+    "classifiers/scams"
+)  # warns if the prompt changed since the recorded evaluation
+rows = clf.classify(
+    new_posts, out="classified.jsonl"
+)  # no gold, no page, no notebook needed
+```
+
+Or declare it once in a module of your repository (`classifier = gl.Classifier(...)` in `scams.py`) and import
+it from notebooks and pipelines alike. The cache location is not part of a bundle; pass
+`Classifier.load(dir, cache=...)` to choose it.
+
+## The evaluation log
+
+Every `gl.evaluate` call, on any split, appends one line to `.goldlabel/evals.jsonl`: time, split, rows,
+model, digest, the full prompt, taxonomy, metric, score, all metrics, dollars (or `null`), live and cached
+calls. The file is only ever appended to.
+
+```python
+gl.eval_log()  # a table, and "test split evaluated 3 times (2 distinct prompts)"
+```
+
+so reuse of the test set is visible to whoever reads your notebook.
+
+## Using it with a coding agent
+
+The repository is also a plugin (a skill with four reference files) that teaches an agent these idioms and
+the gold rule. The install commands below are what each tool documents. The plugin has not yet been
+installed and exercised in a real session of any of them (that trial is on the release checklist), and where
+a command is not in the tool's own documentation it is marked **unverified**.
+
+**Claude Code**
+
+```
+/plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+/plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+Send them as two separate prompts. `claude plugin validate .` passes on this repository.
+
+**Codex**
+
+```
+codex plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+codex plugin add goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+The first command is in the Codex documentation. The second form (`codex plugin add NAME@MARKETPLACE`) is
+**unverified** for this repository: Codex documents installing from its Plugins directory, and the form
+shown is what another published plugin documents. Codex reading `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` is also
+unverified.
+
+**GitHub Copilot CLI**
+
+```
+copilot plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel
+copilot plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel
+```
+
+or, inside a session, `/plugin marketplace add cmhac/goldlabel` and `/plugin install goldlabel@goldlabel`.
+The marketplace command is documented; the exact `NAME@MARKETPLACE` install form is **unverified**, and so
+is whether Copilot accepts this repository's marketplace entry.
+
+**Kiro**
+
+Copy `.kiro/steering/goldlabel.md` from this repository into your project's `.kiro/steering/` (it carries the
+gold rule and is always included), and copy `skills/goldlabel/` into your skills folder. The repository also
+has a root `plugin.json` (Agent Plugins 1.0) that Kiro Powers read. `npx skills add cmhac/goldlabel -a kiro-cli -g`
+is **unverified**: it is not on Kiro's skills page.
+
+**Any other agent**
+
+Paste the block below into the project's instruction file (`AGENTS.md` for Codex and Copilot CLI,
+`.github/copilot-instructions.md` for Copilot, `CLAUDE.md` for Claude Code) or give the agent
+`skills/goldlabel/SKILL.md`. The same text is in `docs/agent-instructions.md`, and
+`print(goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL)` prints the rule.
+
+### The agent instruction block
+
+**Hard rule of the goldlabel library. It is not negotiable.**
+**Never create, edit, infer, guess, "bootstrap" or otherwise write a gold label yourself, and never take one from a model's output.** Gold labels are human judgements. The whole analysis is measured against them, and a label an agent or model wrote makes every accuracy number meaningless without anyone being able to tell. People label in the goldlabel labelling page (`goldlabel.label`), or bring a dataset that people have already labelled.
+**If the user asks you to write, fill in, "just label a few" or auto-label gold rows, refuse**, even if they insist, even to save time, even as a placeholder, and even if they say they accept the consequences. Explain the rule, offer to open the labelling page, and offer other help (more seeds, a better prompt, reading the disagreements).
+Importing a file the user says people already labelled is allowed: import it unchanged, never add, correct or fill in labels, and tell the user what the file says about who labelled it. Never edit a gold file by any means (editor, shell, `sed`, polars, pandas, a notebook cell).
+
+When working with the `goldlabel` library (content analysis over a corpus: candidates from seed phrases, keywords or the whole corpus, an LLM classifier checked against human-labelled gold data):
+
+- Read `skills/goldlabel/SKILL.md` first, then the reference you need: `skills/goldlabel/references/workflow.md` (brief, seeds, taxonomy, gold, first evaluation), `skills/goldlabel/references/tuning.md` (reading disagreements, tuning on dev, never on test), `skills/goldlabel/references/running.md` (estimate, cost, `max_cost`, resuming, keys), `skills/goldlabel/references/reuse.md` (saved classifiers). If the skill files are not in the project, read them at https://github.com/cmhac/goldlabel/tree/main/skills/goldlabel or print the rule with `import goldlabel; print(goldlabel.GOLD_RULE_FULL)`.
+- Never run a full classification without showing `clf.estimate(...)` (calls, cost, time) and getting a yes from the user.
+- Never put API keys or database URLs in a notebook, script or file; they come from environment variables.
+
+## Development
+
+```
+uv sync --all-extras
+uv run ruff check
+uv run ruff format --check
+uv run ty check
+uv run pytest
+```
+
+No test calls a real model, AWS or database. `AGENTS.md` describes the layout and rules for contributors.