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 ## Contributing
 
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
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 ### Contributing guide
 
 Check our [internal developer docs](./docs/developer/readme.md) to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Autorest.