From 9295a6ac45532c9e2c9d30ae118327a8a3a47a0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Hoffart <jackson.hoffart@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:27:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gains pull request template

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 PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md

diff --git a/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
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+## Summary
+<what changed and why>
+
+## Related issues
+Closes: 
+
+## Testing
+<how you validated behavior — automated tests or manual reproduction>
+
+## Checklist
+- [ ] PR is focused on a single concern
+- [ ] Tests pass locally and in CI
+- [ ] Docs updated for user-visible changes
+- [ ] AI-assisted portions declared (see [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/RMI/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md))

From 9cdad79d8adf205c95f849c95670f2142106006e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jackson Hoffart <jackson.hoffart@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:33:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: update README.md

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 README.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 This repository holds RMI's organization-wide GitHub community health defaults. Files here apply to every repository in the org that doesn't provide it's own.
 
+## What Lives Here
+
+- `PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md`: a default PR template, aligned with the process guidance in [`practices/process/pull_request.md`](https://github.com/RMI/practices/blob/main/process/pull_request.md).
+
 ## How This Repo Relates to `practices`
 
 - `practices`[https://github.com/RMI/practices] is the source of truth for guidance: the "why" and "how" behind our engineering standards.