[imbajin]

Before → After

Repository guides mixed current behavior with review coordination, pending PR references and completed CI migration notes. Keep the operational documentation focused on the resulting behavior instead:

• Remove historical Cypher coordination links while retaining the documented API contract.
• State the Java client's omitted-field versus explicit-zero compatibility requirement directly.
• Describe the existing CI behavior without the completed protection-transition narrative.
• Add a pre-merge checklist to review the full diff and exclude one-off workflows, logs, reports and temporary files.

Documentation only; this PR does not change runtime behavior, workflows or protection settings. The author reports Markdown link/path checks and git diff --check; these checks were not independently rerun here.

Source PR: 🔗 org Server #348

Visual overview

Repository guides retain behavior contracts and client compatibility requirements while temporary review coordination and completed CI-transition notes are removed. Contribution guidance asks authors to inspect the complete diff and file list before merge. This documentation-only change does not modify API behavior, CI implementation or branch protection, and the illustration does not claim passing tests or CI.