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Requested by Ciaran Morinan · Slack thread

🌟 Purpose

#9897 removed this repository's PR template so that GitHub applies the organization-wide default from hashintel/.github. Nothing in the repository says where that default lives. Two agent skills still point at the deleted .github/pull_request_template.md or at sections the old template had.

This PR links the organization-wide default, docs/pull_request_template.md in hashintel/.github, from CONTRIBUTING.md and from the managing-git-workflow and petrinaut-shipping skills.

🔍 Changes

• CONTRIBUTING.md no longer asks contributors to say when a template section is not relevant. The new template asks them to delete such sections instead.
• managing-git-workflow no longer tells agents to link the Linear issue under "related links". The new template has no such section and asks for the identifier in the PR title only. The skill also now says to delete sections that do not apply, matching the template.

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PR Summary

Low Risk
Documentation-only updates to contributor and agent workflow guidance; no runtime or security impact.

Overview
After the repo-local PR template was removed (#9897), contributor and agent guidance still referenced .github/pull_request_template.md and old template behaviors.

CONTRIBUTING.md now links HASH’s organization-wide default template and states this repo relies on that default.

managing-git-workflow and petrinaut-shipping point draft PRs at the same org template. The git-workflow skill also aligns Linear traceability with the new template: put issue IDs in the PR title (comma-separated for multiple issues) and don’t re-link Linear in the body; for template sections that don’t apply, delete them instead of marking them unknown or N/A.

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