In this doc:

When contributing to the post-audit process as an SR ranked Warden, you must adhere to these guidelines:

✅ Agree to the Terms

• Add a 👍 emoji to the Agreement & Disclosures issue in the relevant findings repo.
• Comment on the Agreement & Disclosures issue with any potential conflicts of interest you may have, for transparency.
• Abide by the Code of Professional Conduct at all times.
• Follow our Good Citizen Policy.

A selection of relevant Code of Conduct rules 👇

• Confidentiality: Treat the contents of ALL submissions as private and confidential until the contest report is made public.
• Ethics: State any conflicts of interest or unfair advantages in contests and either recuse yourself or declare your ineligibility and forfeiture of awards.
• Constructive contribution: Accept that the process is human and therefore imperfect, and take an attitude of blameless postmortems; rather than attempting to retroactively ‘fix’ a result you did not agree with, find ways the process can be improved which will lead to better results in the future.
• Respectful discussion: Avoid engaging in any discussion and evaluation of issues submitted by yourself except to answer a question or provide additional context or clarification when requested by a judge or sponsor.
• Respect your privileged access and position within C4 and avoid using this position against the competitive interests of C4.
• Respect judges’ decisions as final.

🤫 Confidentiality

<aside> <img src="/icons/lock-keyhole_purple.svg" alt="/icons/lock-keyhole_purple.svg" width="40px" /> SR wardens have a privileged role within C4, with elevated expectations for confidentiality. As an SR warden, you are expected to uphold the highest standards to help secure C4 clients’ projects — and to ensure that C4’s operations can proceed smoothly.

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• SR wardens have early access to audit submissions. As such, you are expected to treat the contents of ALL submissions as private and confidential until the audit report is made public.
• Until the report is made public, SR wardens should keep the following details confidential:
  • ALL information pertaining to the content, severity levels, etc. of audit submissions
  • Validation/judging status of individual submissions
  • Judge name / username
    • ℹ️ Why this matters
• For open competitive audits only, SR wardens may share the following general information with non-SR wardens:
  • Total number of submissions (no detailed breakdowns)
  • General comments about progress through phases (e.g. “Validation phase is complete, sponsor review underway”)

If you are unsure about whether information is OK to share, please check with C4 staff via the #sr channel in Discord.

<aside> <img src="/icons/exclamation-mark_purple.svg" alt="/icons/exclamation-mark_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Any breach of these confidentiality guidelines will result in the suspension of your SR access privileges.

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🔔 Set notification preferences

As an SR warden, you can opt in to receive Discord notifications for a) findings repo access and b) post-judging QA.