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Using templates to encourage useful issues and pull requests - GitHub Docs Skip to main content
Using templates to encourage useful issues and pull requests Repository maintainers can add templates in a repository to help contributors create high-quality issues and pull requests.
With issue and pull request templates, you can customize and standardize the information you'd like contributors to include when they open issues and pull requests in your repository.
You can customize the templates that are available for contributors to use when they open new issues in your repository.
You can define different input types, validations, default assignees, and default labels for your issue forms.
You can use GitHub's form schema to configure forms for supported features.
When you add a pull request template to your repository, project contributors will automatically see the template's contents in the pull request body.
When you add a manually-created issue template to your repository, project contributors will automatically see the template's contents in the issue body.
You may see some of these common validation errors when creating, saving, or viewing issue forms.
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