chore: update CONTRIBUTING.md

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated contribution guidance to require maintainer agreement before starting code changes.
  • Added instructions for reporting bugs, requesting features, and creating well-written issues or discussions.
  • Added guidelines for AI-assisted contributions and issue references in pull requests.
  • Updated fork setup commands to use repository-specific values.
• Chores
  • Improved documentation formatting reliability across different Node.js environments.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The contribution guide now requires issue or discussion agreement before code changes, documents AI-assisted contribution rules, adds bug and feature request paths, and uses template variables in fork setup commands. The formatting script skips lifecycle scripts and adds a pinned Prettier fallback.

Changes

Contribution Guide Updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contribution paths templates/repository/common/CONTRIBUTING.md	The guide directs contributors to issues or discussions. It adds bug-reporting and feature-request guidance and removes the testing-help bullet.
Code contribution workflow templates/repository/common/CONTRIBUTING.md	The guide requires maintainer agreement before code changes and an issue or discussion reference in eligible pull requests. It adds AI-assisted contribution requirements.
Guide and template maintenance templates/repository/common/CONTRIBUTING.md	The guide corrects the Conventional Commits label. Fork commands now use $REPOSITORY and $REPO_NAME template variables.

Formatting Fallback

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Format command fallback scripts/sync.sh	The format function runs installation with --ignore-scripts, uses the default Prettier command on success, and falls back to Prettier 2.7.1 on failure.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Merge Risk:🔵 Low · up to 16c06

This documentation template update has a few localized issues: inconsistent issue/discussion guidance, a discussion link that opens only the issues page, incomplete AI-disclosure wording, and a potentially invalid fork URL from an undefined template variable. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: updating CONTRIBUTING.md. It is concise and relevant to the pull request.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@templates/repository/common/CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Around line 145-148: Update the contribution workflow wording around the
opening guidance and related references so it consistently permits either an
issue or discussion, including the statements currently referring only to an
issue. Preserve the requirement to obtain maintainer agreement before submitting
code and keep the existing workflow intent unchanged.
- Around line 70-74: Update the contributor guidance paragraph so “issue” links
to the existing issues URL and “discussion” links separately to the repository’s
discussions URL using $DISCUSSIONS; preserve the surrounding advice and wording.
- Around line 225-227: Update the AI-use disclosure rule in the contribution
guidance to include discussions alongside pull requests and issues, covering the
AI-assisted discussion paths described in the surrounding subsection.
- Around line 268-271: Update the renderer invocation in scripts/sync.sh to pass
the derived repo_name value to envsubst under the REPO_NAME variable, so the
CONTRIBUTING.md template produces a valid fork URL.

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