# TokenSpeed Project Ethos and External Contributions

TokenSpeed is intentionally built as a lean, engineering-focused infrastructure project.

In spirit, our development style is closer to projects like OpenAI Triton:
a lean and small core team, move fast, high technical ownership, and an extremely high quality bar.

As a result, we are intentionally selective about external contributions — not because we do not value community involvement, but because maintaining long-term simplicity, performance, and reliability matters deeply for infrastructure software.

TokenSpeed is built by contributors from different companies and open-source communities under the LightSeek Foundation ecosystem. Our mission is simple:

We believe the future of AI should be transparent, collaborative, and inclusive. LightSeek exists to accelerate the development of open, efficient, and trustworthy AI systems—so that progress in AI benefits everyone, not just a few.

## We Welcome External Contributions

We especially welcome:

- obvious bug fixes
- small and verifiable production-needed features
- performance optimizations that fit the existing codebase style and do not introduce unnecessary complexity
- documentation, tooling, and benchmarking improvements

For larger features or architectural changes, we generally recommend starting with an RFC or design discussion first before implementation.

## Engineering Principles

We value:

- reproducible performance
- correctness and stability
- production-oriented engineering
- maintainable implementations

We believe open-source infrastructure advances through open collaboration, healthy technical discussion, and shared engineering progress.

Thanks to everyone contributing code, ideas, reviews, benchmarks, and feedback.

— TokenSpeed Team
