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 Just fork the repository and start coding.
 
+### Contribution Guidelines
+
+- Check if your code passes `cargo fmt` and `cargo clippy`.
+- Check if your code is self explanatory, if not it should be documented by comments.
+- Make a Pull Request to the dev branch for new features or to the bug-fixes branch for bug fixes.
+
 ## Remote execution
 
 You can specify a key called `remote_topgrades` in the configuration file.