diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,3 +6,35 @@ Esau Cortez
 Ethan Surber
 
 Sam Brahim
+
+# Metrics:
+
+# Ramp_up_time: 
+
+Start latency timer using time.perf_counter().
+
+Look for a local README: if resource contains local_dir (a directory path), we check common README filenames (README.md, README.rst, README.txt, README) in that directory. If found, read it (UTF-8, errors replaced).
+
+If no local README, attempt a best-effort remote fetch (only if requests is installed) for common repo hosts:
+
+For GitHub: tries raw.githubusercontent.com/{owner}/{repo}/{branch}/README.md for main and master.
+
+For Hugging Face: tries similar raw/{branch}/README.md patterns.
+
+Generic fallbacks are also attempted.
+
+Note: this remote fetch is optional and will be skipped if requests is not present. (Testing can mock requests so no network is required.)
+
+If no README content is available, return score 0.0 and the elapsed latency.
+
+If README content is found, compute:
+
+Length score from the word count using thresholds (0.0 / 0.1 / 0.25 / 0.4).
+
+Installation score = +0.35 if README contains an "installation" heading or common install phrases (pip install, conda install, docker, etc.).
+
+Code snippet score = +0.25 if README contains fenced code blocks (```) or indented code lines (4 leading spaces or tabs).
+
+Sum weights (length + install + code) and cap at 1.0. Round score to 4 decimals.
+
+Return (score, latency_ms) where latency_ms is integer milliseconds (rounded).
diff --git a/phase1/pytest.ini b/phase1/pytest.ini
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+++ b/phase1/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[pytest]
+pythonpath = src
diff --git a/phase1/requirements-dev.txt b/phase1/requirements-dev.txt
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+++ b/phase1/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pytest
+coverage
+pytest-mock
+requests-mock
diff --git a/phase1/requirements.txt b/phase1/requirements.txt
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+++ b/phase1/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+requests>=2.0.0
diff --git a/phase1/requirements.txt.txt b/phase1/requirements.txt.txt
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diff --git a/phase1/src/__init__.py b/phase1/src/__init__.py
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/phase1/src/metrics/__init__.py b/phase1/src/metrics/__init__.py
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/phase1/src/metrics/ramp_up_time.py b/phase1/src/metrics/ramp_up_time.py
index 93b2cdb..0a15f2f 100644
--- a/phase1/src/metrics/ramp_up_time.py
+++ b/phase1/src/metrics/ramp_up_time.py
@@ -1 +1,208 @@
-#ramp_up_time metric
\ No newline at end of file
+# SWE 45000, PIN FALL 2025
+# TEAM 4
+# PHASE 1 PROJECT
+
+#METRIC: ramp_up_time
+#REQUIREMENTS SATISFIED: latency score, ramp_up_time metric score
+
+# DISCLAIMER: This file contains code either partially or entirely written by
+# Artificial Intelligence
+"""
+src/metrics/ramp_up_time.py
+
+Metric signature:
+    def metric(resource: Dict[str, Any]) -> Tuple[float, int]
+
+The metric returns:
+    (score_in_[0.0,1.0], latency_ms_int)
+
+Scoring (total = 1.0):
+ - README length --> up to 0.40 (raw word count of readme)
+ - Installation section keyword --> up to 0.35 (does the readme include installation/startup related keywords/headers?)
+ - Code snippets (fenced or indented) --> up to 0.25 (are there any code snippets/examples included?)
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+import time
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple
+
+# Threshold-based length scoring (words -> score)
+def _length_score(word_count: int) -> float:
+    if word_count < 50:
+        return 0.0
+    if 50 <= word_count <= 199:
+        return 0.1
+    if 200 <= word_count <= 499:
+        return 0.25
+    return 0.4  # >= 500 words
+
+# Detect installation section by heading or common install phrases
+_INSTALL_RE = re.compile(
+    r"(^|\n)\s*(?:#{1,6}\s*)?(installation|install|setup|getting started|quickstart|usage)\b",
+    flags=re.I,
+)
+_INSTALL_PHRASES = [
+    "pip install",
+    "conda install",
+    "docker",
+    "docker-compose",
+    "requirements.txt",
+    "setup.py",
+    "poetry add",
+]
+
+# Detect code fences or indented code blocks
+_CODE_FENCE_RE = re.compile(r"```")  # fenced blocks
+_INDENTED_CODE_RE = re.compile(r"(?m)^( {4}|\t).+")  # lines starting with 4 spaces or a tab
+
+
+def _read_local_readme(local_dir: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    if not local_dir:
+        return None
+    candidates = ["README.md", "README.rst", "README.txt", "README"]
+    for name in candidates:
+        p = os.path.join(local_dir, name)
+        if os.path.isfile(p):
+            try:
+                with open(p, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as fh:
+                    return fh.read()
+            except Exception:
+                # reading error -> skip to next candidate
+                continue
+    return None
+
+
+def _try_fetch_remote_readme(url: str, timeout: float = 6.0) -> Optional[str]:
+    """
+    Best-effort attempt to fetch README over HTTP for common hosts (GitHub, Hugging Face).
+    This is best-effort and optional — remote fetching is used only if requests is available.
+    """
+    try:
+        import requests  # requests is optional dependency; if missing, we skip remote fetch
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+    url = url.rstrip("/")
+    # Try GitHub raw patterns
+    if "github.com/" in url:
+        # attempt to grab owner/repo from the URL
+        try:
+            parts = url.split("github.com/")[-1].split("/")
+            owner, repo = parts[0], parts[1]
+            repo = repo.replace(".git", "")
+            for branch in ("main", "master"):
+                raw = f"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{owner}/{repo}/{branch}/README.md"
+                try:
+                    r = requests.get(raw, timeout=timeout)
+                    if r.status_code == 200 and r.text.strip():
+                        return r.text
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+    # Try Hugging Face pattern
+    if "huggingface.co/" in url:
+        try:
+            hf_path = url.split("huggingface.co/")[-1].strip("/")
+            # try common raw endpoints
+            for branch in ("main", "master"):
+                raw = f"https://huggingface.co/{hf_path}/raw/{branch}/README.md"
+                try:
+                    r = requests.get(raw, timeout=timeout)
+                    if r.status_code == 200 and r.text.strip():
+                        return r.text
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+    # Generic attempt: try /raw/main/README.md and /raw/master/README.md
+    for suffix in ("/raw/main/README.md", "/raw/master/README.md", "/README.md"):
+        candidate = url + suffix
+        try:
+            r = requests.get(candidate, timeout=timeout)
+            if r.status_code == 200 and r.text.strip():
+                return r.text
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
+    return None
+
+
+def _has_install_section(content: str) -> bool:
+    if _INSTALL_RE.search(content):
+        return True
+    low = content.lower()
+    for phrase in _INSTALL_PHRASES:
+        if phrase in low:
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _has_code_snippet(content: str) -> bool:
+    if _CODE_FENCE_RE.search(content):
+        return True
+    if _INDENTED_CODE_RE.search(content):
+        return True
+    return False
+
+
+def metric(resource: Dict[str, Any]) -> Tuple[float, int]:
+    """
+    Compute ramp-up-time proxy score for a model resource.
+
+    resource keys used:
+      - 'local_dir' (optional): path to a local clone; metric prioritizes reading README from here.
+      - 'url' (optional): model repo URL; used for best-effort remote fetch if local README not found.
+
+    Returns:
+      (score, latency_ms)
+    """
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    try:
+        content: Optional[str] = None
+
+        # 1) Prefer local README if present (fast and deterministic)
+        local_dir = resource.get("local_dir") or resource.get("local_path") or None
+        if local_dir and isinstance(local_dir, str):
+            content = _read_local_readme(local_dir)
+
+        # 2) If no local README, try remote fetch (best-effort; requires 'requests' in env)
+        if content is None:
+            url = resource.get("url") or ""
+            if url:
+                try:
+                    content = _try_fetch_remote_readme(url)
+                except Exception:
+                    content = None  # degrade gracefully
+
+        # 3) If still none, produce score 0.0
+        if not content:
+            score = 0.0
+            latency_ms = int(round((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0))
+            return float(score), int(latency_ms)
+
+        # Normalize content
+        # Word count for length-based scoring
+        words = re.findall(r"\w+", content)
+        wc = len(words)
+
+        len_score = _length_score(wc)
+        install_score = 0.35 if _has_install_section(content) else 0.0
+        code_score = 0.25 if _has_code_snippet(content) else 0.0
+
+        total = len_score + install_score + code_score
+        if total > 1.0:
+            total = 1.0
+
+        latency_ms = int(round((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0))
+        return float(round(total, 4)), latency_ms
+
+    except Exception:
+        # Any unexpected error should degrade to safe default (score 0.0),
+        # but still measure elapsed time.
+        latency_ms = int(round((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0))
+        return 0.0, latency_ms
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+++ b/phase1/tests/unit/test_ramp_up_time_local.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# tests/unit/test_ramp_up_time_local.py
+from pathlib import Path
+from src.metrics.ramp_up_time import metric
+
+def write_readme(tmp_path: Path, text: str) -> str:
+    p = tmp_path / "README.md"
+    p.write_text(text, encoding="utf-8")
+    return str(tmp_path)
+
+def test_empty_readme(tmp_path):
+    d = write_readme(tmp_path, "")
+    score, lat = metric({"local_dir": d})
+    assert score == 0.0
+    assert isinstance(lat, int) and lat >= 0
+
+def test_length_only(tmp_path):
+    text = "word " * 250
+    d = write_readme(tmp_path, text)
+    score, _ = metric({"local_dir": d})
+    assert 0.24 <= score <= 0.26