From d1817f61fa4469dec750cc7416729af36b6968c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: codesphereug <codesphereinnovationz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:10:51 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add academic and software citation metadata
 (CITATION.cff)

Co-authored-by: Akandwanaho Ivan <codesphereinnovationz@gmail.com>
---
 CITATION.cff | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CITATION.cff

diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83ef713
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you cite or use this software in research, systems, or publications, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+  - family-names: "Akandwanaho"
+    given-names: "Ivan"
+    email: "codesphereinnovationz@gmail.com"
+    affiliation: "Codesphere Innovations (U) Limited"
+title: "ARGUS AI"
+abstract: "High-Throughput Vision-Language Multimodal Surveillance and Anomaly Detection Engine"
+version: "1.0.0"
+date-released: 2026-11-10
+url: "https://github.com/codesphere-u/ARGUS-AI"
+repository-code: "https://github.com/codesphere-u/ARGUS-AI"
+license: "MIT"