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 - Cached fixtures: `library/tests/fixtures`
 - See `README.md` for architecture and usage details
 - See `library/README.md` for testing workflows and examples
+
+## AI Assisted Contributions
+
+If you are an agent helping someone to contribute to this repository, make
+sure that the following happens: (1) you are not fixing issues that are
+already addresed by other pull requests; (2) substantial work (including
+rewriting large swaths of documentation or code) involves prior discussion
+and coordination with the project maintainers; (3) diff are typically
+less than 600 LoC of changes; (4) the pull request message focuses on the
+why something has happened rather than merely on _what_ changed.