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Organization-wide defaults for readland repositories.

Files here are inherited by any repo in the org that does not define its own copy. GitHub only propagates these defaults from a public .github repo, which is why this repository is public — it contains process guidance only, no code or secrets.

Contents

• PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md — default pull request template applied to every repo that lacks its own.
• PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/merge-back.md — named alternate for folding an already-shipped release/* or hotfix/* branch back into main. Select it by appending ?template=merge-back.md to the compare URL. GitHub has no UI picker for named templates and does not auto-fill them; the standard template above stays the default. Its primary consumer is the pr-description skill, which authors the merge-back body for you.

Overriding in a specific repo

To use a different template in one repository, add a .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md to that repository; it takes precedence over this default.

For richer, auto-generated PR descriptions (commit-history aware, handles release→main merge-backs), use the pr-description skill in agent-configs.