Create CONTRIBUTING.md

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• Documentation
  • Added contribution guidelines documenting best practices for project contributors, including requirements for testing, code review processes, commit history standards, and submission checklists.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

A new CONTRIBUTING.md file was added to document contribution guidelines. The document outlines requirements for code contributions including reading documentation, passing CI checks, writing tested code, maintaining passing tests, and maintaining clean commit history through rebasing and squashing.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation CONTRIBUTING.md	New contribution guidelines file documenting expectations for contributors: documentation review, CI/linting requirements, test coverage, commit hygiene (rebasing/squashing), and verification checklist.

Possibly related issues

• Add CONTRIBUTING.md #11 — Both PRs introduce a CONTRIBUTING.md file with similar contribution guidelines covering CI checks, testing requirements, and commit history practices.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~2 minutes

Poem

🐰 A guide for the builders so grand and so keen,
Where tests must pass and CI stays clean,
With commits rebased in a logical flow,
Contributors hop on, now they will know! 🌿

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch add-CONTRIBUTING.md

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