docs: add French translations (README, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY)

[iacker]

Summary

Adds French translations of the core documentation, following the existing locale-suffix convention already used for Spanish (README.es.md, CONTRIBUTING.es.md, SECURITY.es.md):

• README.fr.md
• CONTRIBUTING.fr.md
• SECURITY.fr.md

Closes #60535.

Approach

• Translated from the current English sources (not from the Spanish files, which lag a version behind — e.g. the Nous Portal section, antivirus troubleshooting, and the current contributor flow were missing there).
• Written in natural, idiomatic French by a native speaker — not machine-translated.
• Language badge banner in README.fr.md mirrors README.es.md: adds an English badge → README.md, keeps the existing 中文 / اردو / Español badges, and does not self-link a French badge.
• Technical identifiers kept verbatim: commands (hermes setup, hermes model…), paths (~/.hermes/, config.yaml, %LOCALAPPDATA%\hermes), env vars (HERMES_*), provider/model names, URLs, and all code blocks (including in-code comments).
• Internal links point to the .fr.md versions where they now exist.
• The English LICENSE remains the authoritative legal version.

Verification

• Code-fence parity with each English source (README 18/18, CONTRIBUTING 58/58; SECURITY has none).
• Heading/structure and separators preserved; internal anchors resolve against the French headings.
• No residual English prose outside technical identifiers.
• Original README.md / CONTRIBUTING.md / SECURITY.md untouched.

[teknium1]

Thanks for adding a complete French set of the root documentation. The current English sources are unchanged from the PR base, so the translation remains current against main.

Problems

• SECURITY.fr.md:359 still directs readers to CONTRIBUTING.md; use the newly added CONTRIBUTING.fr.md. The established Spanish counterpart localizes this same reference at SECURITY.es.md:311.
• The canonical selector in README.md:14-16 has badges for Chinese, Urdu, and Spanish but not French. Add a README.fr.md badge there so the new translation is discoverable from the primary entry point.

Suggested changes

• Replace the security-policy cross-reference with CONTRIBUTING.fr.md.
• Extend the existing README.md language badge block with French.

Automated hermes-sweeper review.

[teknium1]

Please point this localized policy at the new CONTRIBUTING.fr.md. The equivalent Spanish policy already uses CONTRIBUTING.es.md, so leaving this as CONTRIBUTING.md unnecessarily sends French readers back to English.

[ghost]

Hello, can i help to review this. i'm a french native Canadian. i can help if you want.

[GottZ]

This was generated by AI during triage.

Summary

One PR addresses issue #60535. #63660 adds French translations of README, CONTRIBUTING, and SECURITY, links the translated documents internally, and adds French discoverability to the primary README; the issue remains open despite a non-contributor comment claiming its subject is now CI-enforced.

Related pull requests

• docs: add French translations (README, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY) #63660 best fix — (+1659/-0) — n/a: Adds README.fr.md, CONTRIBUTING.fr.md, and SECURITY.fr.md from the English documentation, directly covering the requested French onboarding and contributor materials. The complete diff addresses the contributor keep_open review by adding the French badge to README.md and linking CONTRIBUTING.fr.md from SECURITY.fr.md.

Suggested consolidation

Keep #63660 open with a salvage path: preserve its complete French documentation set and the two diff-visible fixes requested by the contributor review. It is the recorded best available fix and has no competing duplicate, but no merge recommendation is supported by the recorded lane finding.

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Cross-PR triage: Reviewed 1 pull request and 1 issue in this complex. Each diff was read against this issue; Assessment working set: 97 kB of PR diffs, 3 kB of issue/PR text, 2 kB of discussion (4 comments), 2 verify verdicts. verdicts reflect diff content, not PR titles. Part of an automated triage batch.

[iacker]

Both requested follow-ups are now addressed in d47613e: the primary README includes the French language badge, and SECURITY.fr.md links to CONTRIBUTING.fr.md. All required checks are green. PTAL when you have a moment @teknium1.

[andrexibiza]

Salvage record: your French translation was cherry-picked into the germination pipeline PR (#80391, closes #60535) with your commits' authorship preserved. The parity gate caught drift since your July base (Vercel Sandbox backend count, hermes config get, stale conftest symbol, dangling anchors, security-surface identifiers) and the pipeline re-germinated your prose against current main. Your work is the seed — thanks for a genuinely native translation. (Axl Ibiza, MBA)

[iacker]

Thanks @andrexibiza — really glad the French translation could serve as the seed. Happy to see it re-germinated against current main and gate-enforced; the drift you caught (Vercel Sandbox backend count, hermes config get, the stale conftest symbol, the dangling anchors) is exactly the kind of silent rot a one-shot copy can't defend against. The parity gate is the right call.

Closing this in favor of #80391 makes sense — authorship is preserved there. If it helps the top-10 rollout, I'm happy to germinate one of the still-pending locales (pt / id) through the pipeline and run the gate before opening anything. Just say the word so we don't duplicate the in-flight PRs.

[andrexibiza]

Thanks @andrexibiza — really glad the French translation could serve as the seed. Happy to see it re-germinated against current main and gate-enforced; the drift you caught (Vercel Sandbox backend count, hermes config get, the stale conftest symbol, the dangling anchors) is exactly the kind of silent rot a one-shot copy can't defend against. The parity gate is the right call.

Closing this in favor of #80391 makes sense — authorship is preserved there. If it helps the top-10 rollout, I'm happy to germinate one of the still-pending locales (pt / id) through the pipeline and run the gate before opening anything. Just say the word so we don't duplicate the in-flight PRs.

All language requests are now in-flight germination.

Hermes is everywhere now.

[alt-glitch]

This was generated by AI during triage.

Superseded by #80391, which incorporates this French translation with its current-main parity pipeline and preserves the source work's authorship.

[iacker]

Closing this since #80391 supersedes it and preserves the original authorship.