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+---
+name: VADS – Icon update
+about: Template for updating our assets package to include new VADS icons
+title: DS - VADS icon update: ICON_NAME
+labels: ["design-system", "front-end"]
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+## Description 
+Once VADS has added an icon to their sprite sheet, we need to perform a couple additional steps to extract it and get it added to our assets package.
+
+- New icons: 
+  - ICON_1
+  - ICON_2
+- [Link to VADS PR or Issue]()
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+<!-- Add a checkbox for each item required to fulfill the user story/issue. -->  
+
+- [ ] Update [component-library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@department-of-veterans-affairs/component-library) in `assets/package.json` to the latest version
+- [ ] Run the [extract-icons](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va-mobile-library/blob/main/packages/assets/extract-svgs.js) script to extract the individual SVGs 
+- [ ] Verify existence of new icon(s) and create a PR to merge to repo
+- [ ] Publish a new version of the assets package
+- [ ] Update components package to incorporate updated assets package
+- [ ] Run [buildIconListFromAssets.js script](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va-mobile-library/blob/main/packages/components/buildIconListFromAssets.js) to regenerate assets list
+- [ ] Verify new icon(s) available in Storybook
+- [ ] [Publish](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va-mobile-library/actions/workflows/publish.yml) a new version of the components package
+- [ ] Notify @jessicawoodin to add new icons in Figma
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+---
+name: VADS – Tokens update
+about: Template for updating our tokens package to include new VADS tokens
+title: DS - VADS Token update: TOKENS_DESCRIPTION
+labels: ["design-system", "front-end"]
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+## Description 
+Once VADS has added tokens to their css-library package, we need to perform a couple additional steps to include them in our tokens package.
+
+- [Link to VADS PR or Issue]()
+
+## Tokens
+  - primitive-token-1: VALUE
+  - semantic-token-1: VALUE
+  
+## Acceptance Criteria
+<!-- Add a checkbox for each item required to fulfill the user story/issue. -->  
+
+- [ ] Update [css-library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@department-of-veterans-affairs/css-library) in `tokens/package.json` to the latest version
+- [ ] Run `yarn tokens:build` to rebuild our tokens 
+- [ ] Check for any errors and verify the addition of the new tokens
+- [ ] [Publish](https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va-mobile-library/actions/workflows/publish.yml) a new version of the tokens package
+- [ ] Add new tokens to Storybook
+- [ ] Notify @jessicawoodin to add new tokens to Figma