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+# Recorded Future Internal Notes
+
+This file is an example of internal-only content that lives on `master-rf` and is never submitted upstream to `Azure/Azure-Sentinel`.
+
+## Branch workflow
+
+- `master` — clean mirror of upstream `Azure/Azure-Sentinel`. Sync manually via GitHub's "Sync fork" button.
+- `master-rf` — our default working branch. Based on `master`, contains internal files and changes.
+
+### Day-to-day work
+
+1. Branch from `master-rf`:
+   ```
+   git checkout master-rf
+   git checkout -b rf/my-feature
+   ```
+2. Make changes, commit, push, open a PR into `master-rf`.
+
+### Submitting a PR upstream to Microsoft
+
+1. Branch from `master` (not `master-rf`):
+   ```
+   git checkout master
+   git checkout -b my-upstream-feature
+   ```
+2. Make changes, open a PR into `Azure/Azure-Sentinel`.
+   Internal files (`rf-*.yml`, this file, `.agents/`, etc.) will never appear since they don't exist on `master`.
+
+### Syncing upstream changes into master-rf
+
+1. Go to GitHub and click "Sync fork" on `master` to pull latest from `Azure/Azure-Sentinel`.
+2. Locally rebase `master-rf` onto the updated `master`:
+   ```
+   git fetch origin
+   git checkout master-rf
+   git rebase origin/master
+   git push origin master-rf --force-with-lease
+   ```