From 7cacfea67a98e084a5e31286f4523253790aed60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vamsi-2581 <245859299+Vamsi-2581@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:58:06 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] docs: clarify Python version used by CI

Signed-off-by: Vamsi-2581 <245859299+Vamsi-2581@users.noreply.github.com>
Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a66985f..cf1894e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ dataset curation ideas, and evaluation design — are all welcome.
 4. CI must pass (install check + syntax compile). Add tests where behavior
    is non-trivial.
 
+## Continuous integration
+
+`pyproject.toml` declares `requires-python = ">=3.10"`, but
+[GitHub Actions CI](.github/workflows/ci.yml) currently runs on Python 3.11 only.
+A local pass on Python 3.10 is not the result shown by the CI badge.
+
 ## Code style
 
 - Python 3.10+, type hints on public functions, docstrings on modules.