.github

Org-wide GitHub configuration for @usestring.

Path	What it does
profile/README.md	Renders as the org's public profile at github.com/usestring.
.github/workflows/gitleaks.yml	Secret scanning on pushes and PRs to main.
.gitleaks.toml	Gitleaks ruleset. Loaded from the base branch on PRs, so a PR can't weaken its own scan.

GitHub reads the profile README only from a repo named exactly .github, at exactly profile/README.md — this repo was previously named .usestring, which is the user-profile convention (repo name == username) and gets no special treatment on an org.

Org-wide community health defaults

Every repo in the org that does not have its own copy of one of these files inherits the one here. Adding a local file to a repo overrides the default for that repo only.

Path	Applies to
CONTRIBUTING.md	How to contribute: when to open an issue first, PR expectations, Conventional Commit titles.
SECURITY.md	Vulnerability reporting via [email protected], and scope across repos + hosted services.
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md	Expected conduct and the enforcement contact.
SUPPORT.md	Where a question goes: repo issue vs. private support vs. security.
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md	Default PR body.
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/	Bug and feature forms, plus config.yml contact links.

Two rules worth knowing before editing these:

• ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ is all-or-nothing. If a repo has anything in its own .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/, GitHub ignores this entire directory for that repo rather than merging the two. Every other file overrides individually.
• A LICENSE cannot be defaulted. GitHub deliberately excludes it, because the license has to travel with the code when a repo is cloned or packaged. Licenses stay per-repo.

Lookup order within a repo is its own .github/ folder, then its root, then docs/, and only then this repo. Note that this only works while .github is public — a private default-files repo is not supported.