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+## Purpose
+
+Describe what changes and why.
+
+## Risk and rollout
+
+- Security or abuse impact:
+- Deployment plan:
+- Rollback or remediation plan:
+
+## Review
+
+- Final human technical reviewer:
+- Automated or AI-assisted reviews performed:
+- Findings resolved or explicitly accepted:
+
+> AI-assisted reviews are automated controls and are not human approval.
+
+## Validation
+
+List the tests, builds, checks, and staging validation performed. State why any normally applicable validation was omitted.
+
+## Authorization
+
+- [ ] Merge to the production branch is authorized by a designated technical owner.
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