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Summary

  • The README opens on the existing product shot, with working release, CI, Discord, and license badges.
  • Contributing now requires a maintainer-accepted issue before a large feature or any CI, release, signing, or version change.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated the README with Shape’s Windows desktop-agent modes, file and folder attachments, saved prompts, and links to the website, docs, downloads, and community.
    • Clarified model access by plan, how to connect plugin accounts in Settings, and how plugins differ from local MCP tools.
    • Retained Windows 10/11 64-bit installation guidance and noted that nightly installers may be unstable.
    • Expanded contribution guidance: large changes need an issue and maintainer approval before coding; CI, release, and repository-policy changes require an accepted issue and PR details on the failure addressed, checks, and rollback plan.

The README opens on the existing product shot and working badges. Contributing now requires a maintainer-accepted issue before a large feature or any CI, release, signing, or version change.
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The README now describes Shape’s Windows desktop-agent workflow, features, models, plugins, and installation channels. The contributing guide defines requirements for large contributions and CI, release, and repository-policy changes.

Changes: Product and contribution documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Product overview and usage
README.md
The README describes the desktop-agent workflow and documents composer modes, file and folder attachments, saved prompts, model and plugin access, and installation channels.
Contribution requirements
CONTRIBUTING.md
The guide updates project and license descriptions, adds maintainer approval and submission requirements for large changes and CI or release work, and revises repository-map separators.

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The PR combines a product-facing README refresh with separate contribution-governance edits, contrary to the project’s one-concern-per-PR rule. This is a bounded process issue; split the governance changes before merging.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in CONTRIBUTING.md: Adds unapproved large features and CI, release, signing, or version-bump edits to the changes the project declines absent maintainer agreement.
  • observed — Modified behavior in CONTRIBUTING.md: Changes the separators in the repository-map descriptions from em dashes to colons; the described paths and components remain the same.
  • observed — Modified behavior in README.md: Adds a centered, linked hero image, replacing the prior standalone hero image and separate logo.
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Review comments at @CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Line 24: Update the large-change rule in CONTRIBUTING.md to include LSP and
settings alongside the existing app areas, so changes spanning those areas also
trigger maintainer agreement.
- Around line 3-5: Remove the unsupported statements in the contributor guidance
and license text that claim the project’s license covers contributor
submissions; retain the Code of Conduct and license references.

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- Around line 77-79: Remove the contribution-policy changes from this PR by
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## Contributing

Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) before you open a pull request. A large feature, and any change to CI or the release pipeline, needs an issue a maintainer has accepted.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the contribution-policy changes to a separate PR.

The product overview starts at Line 1. Line 77 starts a separate contribution-policy section, and Line 83 changes the contribution-license statement. Keep one concern in this PR and move the contribution-policy changes to a separate PR.

As per coding guidelines, “One concern per PR. Do not stack a second change on the same branch.”

Also applies to: 83-83

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Review comment at @README.md around lines 77 - 79:
Remove the contribution-policy changes from this PR by restoring the existing
README content for the “Contributing” section and the contribution-license
statement; keep these changes out of this branch for a separate PR, leaving the
product overview unchanged.

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🤖 Completed: Fix CodeRabbit issues in PR #24 — View commit 6da7bf1

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* docs: lead the README with the product and gate CI changes

The README opens on the existing product shot and working badges. Contributing now requires a maintainer-accepted issue before a large feature or any CI, release, signing, or version change.

* docs: clarify contribution scope and licensing and link development guidance

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