It is used together with the respective description.md for the exercise from problem-specifications to build the README.md file.
This is just wrong. Remove this outdated information. Replace it with the actual purpose of hints.md. You can take it from https://github.com/exercism/docs/blob/main/building/tracks/presentation.md:
provide hints to a student to help them get themselves unstuck in an exercise
This is just wrong. Remove this outdated information. Replace it with the actual purpose of hints.md. You can take it from https://github.com/exercism/docs/blob/main/building/tracks/presentation.md:
provide hints to a student to help them get themselves unstuck in an exercise