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+# CLAUDE.md
+
+## What this repo is
+
+The public Python client library for the EarningsCall developer API, published
+to PyPI as [`earningscall`](https://pypi.org/project/earningscall/). It is a
+thin `requests`-based SDK: all calls hit `https://v2.api.earningscall.biz` (domain
+overridable via `EARNINGSCALL_DOMAIN`), plus `https://earningscall.biz/exchanges.json`
+for the exchange list. Auth is an `apikey` query param resolved from
+`earningscall.api_key`, then the `ECALL_API_KEY` / `EARNINGSCALL_API_KEY` env
+vars, defaulting to `"demo"` (AAPL-only sample access; other symbols raise
+`InsufficientApiAccessError`). Public surface (see `earningscall/__init__.py`):
+`get_company`, `get_all_companies`, `get_sp500_companies`, `get_calendar`,
+`Symbols`, `load_symbols`, `exchanges`, and module-level config
+(`api_key`, `enable_requests_cache`, `retry_strategy`).
+
+## Key files
+
+- `earningscall/api.py` — HTTP layer. Endpoint wrappers (`events`,
+  `transcript`, `audio`, `slides`, `calendar`, `symbols-v2.txt`,
+  `symbols/sp500.txt`), retry with backoff on 429/5xx, 401 →
+  `InvalidApiKeyError`, optional `requests-cache` sqlite cache
+  (`.earningscall_cache` in the temp dir, on by default).
+- `earningscall/exports.py` — the top-level functions re-exported by
+  `__init__.py`.
+- `earningscall/company.py` — `Company`: `events()`, `get_transcript()`
+  (levels 1–4), `download_audio_file()`, `download_slide_deck()`. Maps 404 →
+  `None`/`[]` and 403 → `InsufficientApiAccessError`.
+- `earningscall/symbols.py` — `CompanyInfo`/`Symbols`; parses the
+  tab-separated `symbols-v2.txt` index; cached in a module-level singleton.
+- `earningscall/exchanges.py`, `sectors.py` — index↔name tables; exchanges
+  load dynamically from `exchanges.json` with a hardcoded fallback list.
+- `earningscall/transcript.py`, `event.py`, `calendar.py` — `dataclasses_json`
+  response models. `errors.py` — exception types.
+- `tests/` — pytest + `responses`; recorded YAML fixtures in `tests/data`, no
+  live network. `scripts/` — runnable examples (`python -m scripts.<name>`).
+
+## How changes ship
+
+- Build/test/lint via Hatch (hatchling backend) — commands in
+  [DEVELOPMENT.md](DEVELOPMENT.md). CI (`.github/workflows/test.yml`) runs
+  `hatch run lint:all` (ruff, black, mypy), `hatch run cov` (Coveralls), and a
+  containerized matrix `hatch run all:test` on Python 3.10–3.14.
+- Releases: bump the static `version` in `pyproject.toml` `[project]`, add a
+  `## Release \`X.Y.Z\` - YYYY-MM-DD` entry to `CHANGELOG.md`, then push a
+  `vX.Y.Z` tag. `.github/workflows/release.yml` builds and publishes to PyPI
+  via trusted publishing (OIDC, `pypi` environment), signs with Sigstore, and
+  creates the GitHub Release. Merges to `master` build but do not publish.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- `[tool.hatch.version]` in pyproject points at `hatch_init/__about__.py`,
+  which does not exist — dead template config (version is not in `dynamic`).
+  The real version is `[project] version`. The `--cov=hatch_init` script there
+  is equally dead; `hatch.toml` `[envs.default]` overrides it. Don't "fix"
+  either by creating `hatch_init/`.
+- Module-level singletons (`symbols._symbols`, `exchanges._exchanges_in_order`)
+  and the on-disk requests cache persist stale data across calls; use
+  `clear_symbols()` / `api.purge_cache()` in tests (see the autouse fixture in
+  `tests/test_helper.py`).