Below are links to various documentation containing guidelines and best practices for coding and building on http://va.gov The best practices are general principals to follow and are important to understand, while the guidelines are standard principles that must be followed to be in compliance with the platform policies and practices.
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How we use GitHub code owners -
Preparing your Pull Request for Platform Review -
Best Practices for Writing Pull Requests -
Vets API PR tips -
Personal Identifiable Information (PII) guidelines -
Coding best practices for PII -
Sensitive documentation guidance -
Creating New Github Repositories in VA Github Org -
GitHub code scanning policy -
Copilot on the Platform -
Sidekiq::AttrPackage Guidelines
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