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 Before opening a pull request, please open an issue and discuss whether the change makes sense in Dyad. Ensuring a cohesive user experience sometimes means we can't include every possible feature or we need to consider the long-term design of how we want to support a feature area.
 
+For a high-level overview of how Dyad works, please see the [Architecture Guide](./docs/architecture.md). Understanding the architecture will help ensure your contributions align with the overall design of the project.
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 ## More than code contributions
 
 Something that I really appreciate are all the non-code contributions, such as reporting bugs, writing feature requests and participating on [Dyad's sub-reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/dyadbuilders).