diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..939e5341e74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# How to Contribute
+
+We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are
+just a few small guidelines you need to follow.
+
+## Contributor License Agreement
+
+Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Contributor License
+Agreement. You (or your employer) retain the copyright to your contribution;
+this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as
+part of the project. Head over to <https://cla.developers.google.com/> to see
+your current agreements on file or to sign a new one.
+
+You generally only need to submit a CLA once, so if you've already submitted one
+(even if it was for a different project), you probably don't need to do it
+again.
+
+## Code reviews
+
+All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We
+use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult
+[GitHub Help](https://help.github.com/articles/about-pull-requests/) for more
+information on using pull requests.
+
+## Community Guidelines
+
+This project follows [Google's Open Source Community
+Guidelines](https://opensource.google.com/conduct/).
diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
index 5f24424889d..413be052042 100644
--- a/synth.metadata
+++ b/synth.metadata
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
       "git": {
         "name": ".",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client.git",
-        "sha": "510d17a52e0d500fd1a68c554a7d3dcbfdc1a5d6"
+        "sha": "cd4e8f429422232dd82ef7e9bc685061d5df94a1"
       }
     },
     {
       "git": {
         "name": "synthtool",
         "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
-        "sha": "ffe10407ee2f261c799fb0d01bf32a8abc67ed1e"
+        "sha": "ee7506d15daa3873accfff9430eff7e3953f0248"
       }
     }
   ]