[PM-31468] Consolidated build and link instructions

[trmartin4]

🎟️ Tracking

https://bitwarden.atlassian.net/browse/PM-31468

📔 Objective

Consolidates instructions for how to build and consume sdk-internal into the README, instead of between the README and Contributing Docs.

Adds documentation of how to update published artifacts on clients, ios, and android repositories, to aid in understanding of how to integrate sdk-internal changes into the SDLC.

Corresponding PR to clean up Contributing Docs: bitwarden/contributing-docs#757

🚨 Breaking Changes

⏰ Reminders before review

• Contributor guidelines followed
• All formatters and local linters executed and passed
• Written new unit and / or integration tests where applicable
• Protected functional changes with optionality (feature flags)
• Used internationalization (i18n) for all UI strings
• CI builds passed
• Communicated to DevOps any deployment requirements
• Updated any necessary documentation (Confluence, contributing docs) or informed the documentation
  team

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• ❓ (:question:) for questions
• 🤔 (:thinking:) or 💭 (:thought_balloon:) for more open inquiry that's not quite a confirmed
  issue and could potentially benefit from discussion
• 🎨 (:art:) for suggestions / improvements
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• 🌱 (:seedling:) or ♻️ (:recycle:) for future improvements or indications of technical debt
• ⛏ (:pick:) for minor or nitpick changes

[github-actions]

🔍 SDK Breaking Change Detection Results

SDK Version: consolidate-build-link-instructions (a4be876)
Completed: 2026-02-04 22:12:43 UTC
Total Time: 249s

Client	Status	Details
typescript	✅ No breaking changes detected	TypeScript compilation passed with new SDK version - View Details

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Breaking change detection completed. View SDK workflow

[github-actions]

Checkmarx One – Scan Summary & Details – d2743447-3472-4668-9579-47bec7ca16c6

Great job! No new security vulnerabilities introduced in this pull request

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 79.99%. Comparing base (5285d3f) to head (a4be876).
⚠️ Report is 13 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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[coroiu]

suggestion: I think we should add a tip that if you want to bind multiple packages (e.g. if you are building OSS and Commercial code) you can just run npm link with both paths in the command (in fact, it's the only way to bind both at the same time since, like you say, everything else is restored)

[trmartin4]

Updated in a4be876 (this PR).