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+# Contributing to automation-tools
+
+Thank you for your interest in making a contribution to automation-tools.
+
+Since this project is used mostly in the general context of Archivematica, we
+invite you to read the [Archivematica contributing guide](https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/blob/qa/1.x/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+ to learn how to contribute to automation-tools.
+
+Any information specific to the automation-tools project should be listed
+below.