docs: expand contributor guide

[mamayer19]

Summary

• expand the contributor guide from a short command reference into an end-to-end development workflow
• document fresh checkout setup, repository layout, dependency boundaries, and focused-change conventions
• provide validated commands for Python, TypeScript, Rust, Helm, contracts, tooling, and examples
• explain the pull request, review, merge, and maintainer-owned release process

Validation

• mise tasks
• mise exec -- python tools/ci/check_public_tree.py
• mise exec -- uv run --frozen --project . --no-sync pytest -q tools/ci/tests/test_required_ci.py tools/ci/tests/test_public_tree.py — 105 passed
• mise exec -- actionlint -ignore '^unexpected key "queue" for "concurrency" section\. expected one of "cancel-in-progress", "group"$'
• repository-relative link validation
• disclosure-focused text scan
• git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Expanded contributor guidance covering issue selection, repository setup, workspace boundaries, conventions, validation, CI tooling, policy checks, documentation testing, pull requests, and release responsibilities.
  • Updated previous checkout, validation, and release guidance with more comprehensive instructions.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Changes

Contributor guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contribution setup and validation CONTRIBUTING.md	Adds guidance for issue selection, repository setup, workspace boundaries, conventions, schema regeneration, and scoped validation.
Policy and documentation checks CONTRIBUTING.md	Documents dependency-policy checks, Rust harnesses, tooling checks, workflow policies, documentation tests, and generated artifacts.
Pull-request and release process CONTRIBUTING.md	Adds pull-request requirements, CI and review policies, and release responsibilities.

Suggested reviewers: dragosboca

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3153d

Contributor validation guidance may report outdated dependency-security results until it refreshes the cargo-deny advisory database before the locked check.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: expanding the contributor guide in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch codex/contributing-guide

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In `@CONTRIBUTING.md`:
- Line 168: Update the documented cargo-deny workflow near the existing locked
check to first run a separate cargo-deny fetch using the repository’s pinned
0.20.2 tool, then run the existing --locked dependency check unchanged.

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