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Closes #514

Why

The pluk guide already calls pattern sets "the easiest way to start contributing", but it never told a newcomer where to find starter work or where to ask questions. The README ## Contributing section and the issue chooser already link Discord and the community meeting, but the guide itself did not. This PR adds a "Finding something to work on" section, using the same wording as the one merged in hivecommons/rationguard#529, so pluk matches the other managed repos.

test/community-links.test.js already checks the README and the issue chooser. It now also checks the new section. If a starter label link, an issue form link (or the form file it points to), ROADMAP.md, Discord or the meeting link is dropped, npm test fails.

No CLI, pattern or dist/ change, so there is no changelog fragment (as with #485).

Claim evidence

• good first issue / help wanted labels exist: gh label list --repo hivecommons/pluk lists both.
• Pattern request, bug report and feature request forms: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/pattern_request.yml, bug_report.yml, feature_request.yml (the test asserts that each linked form exists).
• "Adding or fixing a pattern set" anchor: the existing ## Adding or fixing a pattern set heading in CONTRIBUTING.md.
• ROADMAP covers shipped / planned / out of scope: ROADMAP.md headings Recently shipped, Near term, Non-goals for now.
• Discord and meeting URLs and "biweekly": the same URLs as .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml and the README ## Contributing section, already checked by this test file (📖 docs: link the Hive Commons community meeting from README and issue chooser #485).

Validation

• npm test (Node 26): 889/889 pass, and the coverage gate passes.
• With the CONTRIBUTING.md edit reverted, node --test test/community-links.test.js has 6 failures (the new tests) and 6 passes.

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Hive status — updated in place; edits do not notify. Full history is in the Activity Monitor.

Reviewed by reviewer — no findings.

Reviewer notes

Read the tree at main, not just the diff: ROADMAP.md exists with the Recently shipped / Near term / Non-goals for now headings the new sentence summarises; all three issue forms linked from the new section are present in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/; the #adding-or-fixing-a-pattern-set anchor matches the existing ## Adding or fixing a pattern set heading at CONTRIBUTING.md:33; and the Discord / meeting URLs are byte-identical to the ones already in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml:7,13 and README.md:420.

The new tests in test/community-links.test.js assert exactly those facts (label query URLs, each linked form file exists, ROADMAP link, community URLs), so dropping any link fails npm test. No CLI/dist/ change, so no changelog fragment is needed — consistent with #485.

Looks correct to me. Docs-only; no findings.

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[hivecommons-hive]

Checked the new section against the tree at 5b7a516; looks correct to me.

• All six link targets resolve: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/{pattern_request,bug_report,feature_request}.yml exist, ROADMAP.md exists with the Recently shipped / Near term / Non-goals for now headings the sentence describes, and the #adding-or-fixing-a-pattern-set anchor matches the existing ## Adding or fixing a pattern set heading (CONTRIBUTING.md:44 on this head).
• The Discord and meeting URLs are byte-identical to the ones in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml:7,13 and README.md:420, so the three entry points stay in step as test/community-links.test.js intends.
• The new tests assert on ](url) substrings and existsSync of each linked form, so dropping a link or renaming a form file fails npm test without the test needing to change. Diff matches #514's two checkboxes exactly; no unrelated edits.

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