# How to contribute

We definitely welcome patches and contributions to grpc-swift! Please read the gRPC
organization's [governance rules](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-community/blob/main/governance.md)
and [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-community/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) before proceeding.

Here are some guidelines and information about how to participate.

## Getting started

### Legal requirements

In order to protect both you and ourselves, you will need to sign the
[Contributor License Agreement](https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/projects/cncf).

### Technical requirements

Please see the [main gRPC repository](https://github.com/grpc/grpc) for
more information about gRPC.

### Run CI checks locally

You can run the GitHub Actions workflows locally using [act](https://github.com/nektos/act) or in some cases calling scripts directly. For detailed steps on how to do this please see [https://github.com/swiftlang/github-workflows?tab=readme-ov-file#running-workflows-locally](https://github.com/swiftlang/github-workflows?tab=readme-ov-file#running-workflows-locally).