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@@ -56,6 +56,32 @@ The portal database is authoritative for member emails and balances; LiteLLM's
 team budget is the source of truth for a member's allowance, shared between chat
 and API.
 
+### The bot account on Open Collective
+
+You may notice **"Inference Co-op Bot"** listed as an admin of the collective on
+Open Collective. This is infrastructure, not a member or a person:
+
+- **What it is:** a dedicated Open Collective account owned by the co-op. It
+  holds a **Personal Token** that the member portal uses to read membership
+  data — the roster, tiers (needed to route credit-pack purchases correctly),
+  and contributor emails (including guests, which only admins can see).
+- **What it can do:** read member and tier data via Open Collective's API.
+  It cannot move money, issue refunds, or change the collective — Open
+  Collective restricts those to dashboard actions by human admins. Its API
+  access was verified read-mostly during the October 2026 security review.
+- **Why it has admin:** reading guest contributor emails requires admin on
+  Open Collective; without it, membership reconciliation and credit-pack
+  routing can't function.
+- **Who supervises it:** all of its code is open source in
+  [code/member-portal](https://git.inference.coop/code/member-portal) — every
+  API call it makes is documented there. Nathan Schneider (collective admin)
+  oversees its use and can revoke or rotate its token at any time from the
+  Open Collective dashboard.
+
+Nothing on Open Collective is charged, transferred, or refunded by automation:
+payments always come from a human's own contribution action, and any automated
+system only *reads* the resulting records.
+
 ## The code
 
 The cooperative's software is open source, in the [`code`](https://git.inference.coop/code)