#8509: docs: add docs CONTRIBUTING.md
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This PR adds a CONTRIBUTING.md file to the docs/ directory with guidance on how to specifically contribute to the OpenClaw documentation.
Goal is to help human and agent contributors successfully create high quality content with
* How to build a local preview to check changes before creating a PR
* Required frontmatter and file formats
* Style and writing tips
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<h2>Greptile Overview</h2>
<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
Adds `docs/CONTRIBUTING.md`, a documentation-specific contributing guide covering local preview workflow, required frontmatter, writing/style tips, MDX component usage, navigation updates, images, and a pre-PR checklist. This complements the repo-wide guidelines by giving doc contributors concrete Mintlify-focused instructions and conventions.
<h3>Confidence Score: 4/5</h3>
- This PR is safe to merge; it adds documentation only with a few likely-to-confuse command/path details.
- Change is a new docs-only file with no code execution impact. The main risks are correctness/usability of the contribution instructions (CLI invocation and config file path), which are easy to fix and won’t affect runtime behavior.
- docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
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**Context used:**
- Context from `dashboard` - CLAUDE.md ([source](https://app.greptile.com/review/custom-context?memory=fd949e91-5c3a-4ab5-90a1-cbe184fd6ce8))
- Context from `dashboard` - AGENTS.md ([source](https://app.greptile.com/review/custom-context?memory=0d0c8278-ef8e-4d6c-ab21-f5527e322f13))
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