You don’t need to write legal memos — but you do need to ship clean, auditable artifacts.

Developer contributions typically include:

  • Architecture diagrams (system inputs, outputs, dependencies)

  • Model cards or README files

  • Version history and performance benchmarks

  • Bias + robustness test results

  • Logs of dataset versions, training configs, and deployments

  • API documentation and access controls

  • Change tracking for code, data, and decision logic