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+# Contributing Guidelines
+
+Thank you for your interest in contributing to our project. Whether it's a bug report, new feature, correction, or additional
+documentation, we greatly value feedback and contributions from our community.
+
+Please read through this document before submitting any issues or pull requests to ensure we have all the necessary
+information to effectively respond to your bug report or contribution.
+
+In addition, please review our [CodeOps](./ops/CodeOps.md) to understand our approach to coding.
+
+## Code contributions
+### Reporting Bugs/Feature Requests
+
+Please use the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/VirtualPatientEngine/AIAgents4Pharma/issues) to report bugs or suggest features.
+
+When filing an issue, please check existing open, or recently closed, issues to make sure somebody else hasn't already
+reported the issue. Please try to include as much information as you can following the bug and feature templates that we provide.
+
+### Contributing via Pull Requests
+Contributions via pull requests are much appreciated. Before sending us a pull request, please review our [DevOps](./ops/DevOps.md) guide, and please ensure that:
+
+1. You are working against the latest source on the *main* branch.
+2. You check existing open, and recently merged, pull requests to make sure someone else hasn't addressed the problem already.
+3. You open an issue to discuss any significant work - we would hate for your time to be wasted.
+
+### Finding contributions to work on
+Looking at the existing issues is a great way to find something to contribute on. As our projects, by default, use the default GitHub issue labels (enhancement/bug/duplicate/help wanted/invalid/question/wontfix), looking at any 'help wanted' issues is a great place to start.
+
+## Code of Conduct
+This project follows the [Apache Code of Conduct](https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct).
+
+## Security issue notifications
+If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify Team VPE directly: mccloskey at bio dot mx. Please do **not** create a public github issue.
+
+## Attributions
+Portions adopted from https://github.com/pytorch, https://github.com/rapidsai, and https://github.com/aws-samples/
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