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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Self-service configuration for this repository, applied by ASF Infra
+# automation. Reference: https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfyaml
+# Only baseline settings for now; notifications, required status checks,
+# and other options need community discussion before being added.
+
+github:
+  description: "Apache Sourcelume is open-source instrumentation for AI training-data provenance — a metadata specification, a reference registry, and tooling that let dataset curators and model producers publish signed, independently verifiable records of where their data came from and what terms it carries."
+  homepage: https://sourcelume.apache.org
+  labels:
+    - ai
+    - training-data
+    - data-provenance
+    - dataset-licensing
+    - license-compliance
+    - attestation
+    - verifiable-data
+    - ai-governance
+    - transparency
+    - specification
+    - apache
+  enabled_merge_buttons:
+    squash: true
+    merge: false
+    rebase: false
+  protected_branches:
+    main: {}