# RDS Research Posture — Canonical Disclaimer

**This block is canonical.** Paste verbatim into each app's `LICENSE`, `README.md` (top of doc, above install), and `CLAUDE_HANDOFF.md`. Do not paraphrase per-app — coherence matters here.

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## Research Software — Not Commercial Software

RenatoDesignSystem™ apps are **research artifacts**, not commercial products.

They are authored through **Iterative LLM Co-Authorship (ILCA)** — a collaboration between Phil Renato and Claude (Anthropic) — as an active, ongoing design inquiry. The apps are shared publicly in that spirit.

**Before using any of these apps, understand:**

- They are **not warranted, supported, or validated** for production, safety-critical, regulated, or professional work.
- They may contain bugs, broken features, unstable APIs, or outputs that look plausible but are wrong.
- Third-party dependencies are attributed in each app's `NOTICES.md`, but **no formal IP clearance** has been performed beyond that.
- Domain-specific outputs (footwear lasts, jewelry geometry, CFD results, literary critiques, etc.) are **exploratory** — do not use them as the basis for manufacturing, legal, medical, financial, or other consequential decisions without independent verification.
- The models and APIs some apps rely on are subject to their own providers' terms, which may change.

**If you use an RDS app, you accept these terms.** If any of the above is a problem for your use case, **do not use the software for that purpose.**

This is the condition under which the work is shared openly. Treating it as more than research is your risk, not Phil's.

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## Suggested LICENSE preamble

For apps shipping an MIT-style license, prepend this paragraph above the MIT text:

> This software is released as research. It is provided "as is" with no warranty or fitness-for-purpose claim, implicit or explicit. The authors publish it to document an ongoing design inquiry, not to support professional or commercial workflows. See `RESEARCH_DISCLAIMER.md` (or the README) for full context before use.

Then the standard MIT text follows.