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 ## Commit & Pull Request Guidelines
 
-**Full maintainer PR workflow:** `.agents/skills/PR_WORKFLOW.md` -- triage order, quality bar, rebase rules, commit/changelog conventions, co-contributor policy, and the 3-step skill pipeline (`review-pr` > `prepare-pr` > `merge-pr`).
+**Full maintainer PR workflow (optional):** If you want the repo's end-to-end maintainer workflow (triage order, quality bar, rebase rules, commit/changelog conventions, co-contributor policy, and the `review-pr` > `prepare-pr` > `merge-pr` pipeline), see `.agents/skills/PR_WORKFLOW.md`. Maintainers may use other workflows; when a maintainer specifies a workflow, follow that. If no workflow is specified, default to PR_WORKFLOW.
 
 - Create commits with `scripts/committer "<msg>" <file...>`; avoid manual `git add`/`git commit` so staging stays scoped.
 - Follow concise, action-oriented commit messages (e.g., `CLI: add verbose flag to send`).