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-If you are opening a PR for `Official Notebooks` under the [notebooks/official](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/notebooks/official) folder, follow this mandatory checklist:
+**REQUIRED:** Add a summary of your PR here, typically including why the change is needed and what was changed. Include any design alternatives for discussion purposes.
+
+<br>
+--- YOUR PR SUMMARY GOES HERE ---
+<br><br><br>
+
+**REQUIRED:** Fill out the below checklists or remove if irrelevant
+1. If you are opening a PR for `Official Notebooks` under the [notebooks/official](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/notebooks/official) folder, follow this mandatory checklist:
 - [ ] Use the [notebook template](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/notebooks/notebook_template.ipynb) as a starting point.
 - [ ] Follow the style and grammar rules outlined in the above notebook template.
 - [ ] Verify the notebook runs successfully in Colab since the automated tests cannot guarantee this even when it passes.
@@ -7,12 +14,15 @@ If you are opening a PR for `Official Notebooks` under the [notebooks/official](
 - [ ] This notebook has been added to the [CODEOWNERS](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/notebooks/official/CODEOWNERS) file under the `Official Notebooks` section, pointing to the author or the author's team.
 - [ ] The Jupyter notebook cleans up any artifacts it has created (datasets, ML models, endpoints, etc) so as not to eat up unnecessary resources.
 
+<br>
 
-If you are opening a PR for `Community Notebooks` under the [notebooks/community](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/notebooks/community) folder:
+2. If you are opening a PR for `Community Notebooks` under the [notebooks/community](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/notebooks/community) folder:
 - [ ] This notebook has been added to the [CODEOWNERS](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/notebooks/community/CODEOWNERS) file under the `Community Notebooks` section, pointing to the author or the author's team.
 - [ ] Passes all the required formatting and linting checks. You can locally test with these [instructions](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-quality-checks).
 
-If you are opening a PR for `Community Content` under the [community-content](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/community-content) folder:
+<br>
+
+3. If you are opening a PR for `Community Content` under the [community-content](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/tree/main/community-content) folder:
 - [ ] Make sure your main `Content Directory Name` is descriptive, informative, and includes some of the key products and attributes of your content, so that it is differentiable from other content
 - [ ] The main content directory has been added to the [CODEOWNERS](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/community-content/CODEOWNERS) file under the `Community Content` section, pointing to the author or the author's team.
 - [ ] Passes all the required formatting and linting checks. You can locally test with these [instructions](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-quality-checks).