Clanker includes a crisis detection system that identifies text indicating potential self-harm or suicidal ideation. This system is designed as a screening tool, not a clinical instrument.

Current performance: 70.6% recall on crisis sentences, 0.0% false positive rate on safe text (including dark humor and metaphor).

This system is not a substitute for professional mental health assessment. It is a signal layer that can flag text for human review. Do not use crisis detection scores as the sole basis for clinical decisions.

If you discover a security vulnerability, especially one that could cause:

• False negatives on crisis-relevant text (failing to flag genuine risk)
• False positives that could trigger unnecessary interventions
• Data leakage from the engine's internal state

Please report it privately to jerrymares@gmail.com rather than opening a public issue.

The engine processes text locally. It does not:

• Send data to external services
• Store conversation history (unless the caller implements it)
• Require network access for scoring