Add contribution guideline and README

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# OSS Toolkit Contributing Guide
+
+Thank you for your interest in contributing to Cohere's Compass SDK. This guide will help explain the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a PR, to reviewing and merging your added changes.
+
+## How to Contribute
+
+1. Ensure your change has an issue! Find an existing issue or open a new issue.
+   - This is where you can get a feel if the change will be accepted or not.
+2. Once approved, fork this repository in your own GitHub account.
+3. [Fork this repository](https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/fork-a-repo)
+4. Make your changes on your fork and make sure all your [commits are signed](https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/about-commit-signature-verification)!
+5. [Submit the fork as a Pull Request](https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork) pointing to the `main` branch this repository. A maintainer should comment and/or review your Pull Request within a few days. Although depending on the circumstances, it may take longer.

README.md

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 # Cohere Compass SDK 
 
-WIP 
+The Compass SDK is a Python library that allows you to parse documents and insert them into a Compass index.
+
+In order to parser documents, the Compass SDK relies on the Compass Parser API, which is a RESTful API that
+receives files and returns parsed documents. The parser API is provided as a dockerized service that can be
+deployed locally or in the cloud.
+
+The Compass SDK provides a `CompassParserClient` that allows to interact with the parser API from your
+Python code in a convenient manner. The `CompassParserClient` provides methods to parse single and multiple
+files, as well as entire folders, and supports multiple file types (e.g., `pdf`, `docx`, `json`, `csv`, etc.) as well
+as different file systems (e.g., local, S3, GCS, etc.).
+
+To insert parsed documents into a `Compass` index, the Compass SDK provides a `CompassClient` class that
+allows to interact with a Compass API server. The Compass API is also a RESTful API that allows to create,
+delete and search documents in a Compass index. To install a Compass API service, please refer to the
+[Compass documentation](https://github.com/cohere-ai/compass)