CNTRLPLANE-4312: Add agentic SDLC context files

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• Documentation
  • Added contributor and maintainer guidance covering project structure, development workflows, testing, security practices, and contribution requirements.
  • Added an architecture overview describing authentication, authorization, proxy routing, sessions, upstreams, headers, and TLS behavior.
  • Reworked the README into a concise OpenShift-focused guide covering deployment, configuration, routing, security, endpoints, build and test commands, and container images.
  • Updated configuration references, examples, security guidance, and compatibility information.
  • Removed the previous README’s provider, flag, SSL, Nginx, logging, architecture, and troubleshooting sections.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds contributor and architecture documentation and replaces the README with concise OpenShift deployment, configuration, security, endpoint, and development guidance.

Changes

Documentation refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contributor workflow guidance AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md	Added repository conventions, testing procedures, pull request requirements, review practices, dependency updates, configuration synchronization, and end-to-end test instructions.
Architecture reference ARCHITECTURE.md	Documented startup, request processing, OAuth and authorization flows, sessions, upstream protocols, headers, listeners, and TLS behavior.
OpenShift README README.md	Replaced legacy content with current OpenShift deployment, OAuth/RBAC, delegated authorization, configuration, routing, TLS, endpoint, security, and development documentation.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 0a19a

This change updates contributor, architecture, and OpenShift guidance without changing runtime behavior. No merge-blocking product risk is identified.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. It changes no test files. No Ginkgo title calls or dynamic test titles occur in the added or modified li…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. The parent-to-HEAD diff contains no _test.go or test/* changes, and no Ginkgo test constructs were ad…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. No Ginkgo e2e test declarations or test files were added or modified. Therefore, the MicroShift compatib…
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Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. It adds or edits no deployment manifests, operator code, or controllers. The changed text contai…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull-request diff contains only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. It contains no Go-file or executable/test-suite setup changes. The repository has no OTE/Ginkgo su…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. The diff adds no Ginkgo e2e tests or test paths, and no changed file contains Ginkgo test declarations. …
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. Exact added-line scanning found no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, and no added crypt…
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	PASS — The PR changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. No container or Kubernetes manifest changes were made. Dockerfile and contrib/sidecar.yaml are unchanged. The add…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	PASS: The PR changes only AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and README.md. It adds no runtime logging or configuration code. The only logging guidance says not to log secrets, tokens, priva…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the addition of agentic SDLC context files, which matches the main documentation changes in the pull request.

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• Documentation
• Added contributor and maintainer guidance covering project structure, development workflows, testing, security practices, and contribution requirements.
• Added an architecture overview describing authentication, authorization, proxy routing, sessions, upstreams, headers, and TLS behavior.
• Reworked the README into a concise OpenShift-focused guide covering deployment, configuration, routing, security, endpoints, and testing.
• Removed the previous README’s provider, flag, SSL, Nginx, logging, architecture, and troubleshooting sections.

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