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+# Github Copilot guidelines for PR reviews
+
+This file provides guidance for LLMs to review Amaze File Manager's pull
+requests.
+
+## Specific instructions
+
+In this section are the specific instructions for special cases.
+
+### try-catch structure
+
+When writing a try-catch, in most cases, the catch should contain a specific
+`Exception` subclass, meant to be caught at that point. The `Exception` caught
+should be thrown by one of the functions called in the try clause. In some
+cases, the catch has to be generic, for example when the catch has to prevent
+`Exception`s from crashing a thread.
+
+When catching an `OutOfMemoryError` the catch clause should make careful use
+of memory, and should not instantiate new objects. For more information see
+https://stackoverflow.com/q/24510188.
+
+
+
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+---
+applyTo: "./app/src/*/res/values*/strings.xml"
+---
+# Github Copilot guidelines for translation reviews
+
+This file provides guidance for LLMs to review Amaze File Manager's pull
+requests that contain translation files. 
+
+The original files are in English, and translations should follow the original
+intent, but translators have much leeway in how to express the original intent.
+
+## Formatting
+
+All translations should be formated in the same way as the original. One
+particular case is translations enclosed in Character Data (starting with
+"<![CDATA[" and ending with "]]>"), the translations should keep the
+character data markers, as it is needed for Android to parse the string
+correctly.
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