docs: clarify contribution guidelines

[KevinVandy]

🎯 Changes

Clarify how to submit focused, reviewable contributions to TanStack Hotkeys. Require contributors to search for duplicates, follow the PR template, understand any AI-assisted code, and include changesets for published package changes.

Add lightweight CodeRabbit anti-slop guidance and root agent instructions so automated reviewers and coding agents use the same contributing rules.

✅ Checklist

• I have followed the steps in the Contributing guide.
• Tests do not apply because this pull request changes documentation and review configuration only.
• I fully understand the code in this pull request, including any code generated with AI assistance.

🚀 Release Impact

• This change affects published code, and I have generated a changeset.
• This change is docs/CI/dev-only (no release).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Updated contribution guidelines with clearer bug-reporting, pull request, AI-assisted development, and changeset requirements.
  • Added repository instructions for validation, generated code review, and consistent pull request practices.

• Chores

  • Enhanced automated review configuration with slop detection and contribution guideline awareness.
  • Updated the pull request checklist to support inapplicable test commands and require acknowledgment of AI-assisted code understanding.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes configure CodeRabbit review guidance and update repository instructions for issue reporting, pull requests, AI-assisted contributions, validation, and changesets.

Changes

Contribution Guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Review automation configuration .coderabbit.yaml	Enables slop detection and configures CONTRIBUTING.md as a code-guidelines source.
Contributor workflow requirements AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, .github/pull_request_template.md	Adds contribution and validation instructions, updates issue and pull request requirements, permits inapplicable tests, adds AI-code acknowledgment, and limits changesets to published-package changes.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9054c

This documentation-only change improves contribution guidance, but the pull request template still allows test exceptions without requiring a reason. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness or a small follow-up to clarify that exception.

Suggested reviewers: alemtuzlak

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A rabbit checks the guidance bright

And tunes the reviewer's sight
Checkboxes hop in a tidy row
Clear contribution rules now grow
AI notes rest where they should
The patch is neat, concise, and good

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise and accurately summarizes the primary documentation change: clarifying contribution guidelines.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description follows the required template, explains the documentation and configuration changes, completes the checklist, and correctly identifies the change as docs/CI/dev-only.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (4 skipped: 4 unsupported.)

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch docs/contributing-guidelines

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commit: 9054cd8

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Inline comments:
In @.github/pull_request_template.md:
- Line 8: Update the pull request test checklist so selecting the “tests do not
apply” exception also requires contributors to provide a short reason, while
preserving the existing requirement to run or assess the applicable test
command.

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