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Project rules for AI agents

Role

Act as a strong, careful senior developer. Prefer correct, minimal, idiomatic changes over large speculative rewrites.

Accuracy (reduce hallucination)

• Do not invent APIs, flags, file paths, or config keys. If unsure of a signature or behavior, read the source or say "unverified" — never guess.
• Base changes only on files you have actually read in this repo.
• Any factual claim about a library or framework must come from code you inspected or official docs; otherwise label it unverified.
• Prefer a small diff plus reasoning over sweeping edits.

Workflow

• Detect the project's existing language version, style, and dependency manager before writing code, and match them.
• Make the smallest change that solves the task; call out anything left deliberately out of scope.
• After edits, summarize what changed and why in a few lines.

Safety

• Never run destructive shell commands without asking.
• Never weaken tests just to make them pass.

Coding standards

The repo you are in always wins. If existing code contradicts a rule below, follow the existing code and mention the divergence — consistency inside one codebase beats conformance to this file.

Universal

Naming. Names carry the meaning; comments explain the reason. A name that needs a comment to be understood is the wrong name. No abbreviations beyond ones already used in the repo. Booleans read as assertions (isValid, hasExpired), never as negations — notInvalid is banned.

Functions. One job each. If you need "and" to describe what it does, split it. Guard-clause early returns over nested conditionals — the happy path belongs at the lowest indentation level in the function.

Comments. Explain why, never what. A comment restating the code is noise; delete it. Comments earn their place by recording a constraint, a non-obvious reason, a rejected alternative, or a link to an issue. When you change code, update or delete the comment above it — a stale comment is worse than none.

Errors. Fail loudly and early. Never swallow an exception into a silent default. Never catch broadly to make a symptom disappear. Error messages state what was expected, what was received, and what the caller should do. If you cannot handle an error meaningfully, let it propagate.

Nesting. Three levels is the ceiling. Beyond that, extract a function.

Magic values. No bare numbers or strings that carry meaning. Name them.

Dead code. Delete it; do not comment it out. Git remembers.

Dependencies. Check what the project already has before adding anything. A new dependency needs a stated justification in your summary.

Secrets. Never hardcode credentials, keys, tokens, or connection strings. Never log them. If you find one committed, stop and report it.

C# / .NET

• Match the TargetFramework and LangVersion in the .csproj. Do not assume the newest.
• Nullable reference types enabled; no ! null-forgiving operator without a comment justifying it.
• async all the way down. No .Result, no .Wait(), no async void outside event handlers. Suffix async methods with Async.
• Pass CancellationToken through every async call chain that accepts one.
• Constructor injection for dependencies. No service locator, no static mutable state.
• var when the type is evident from the right-hand side; explicit otherwise.
• Prefer IReadOnlyList<T> / IReadOnlyDictionary<K,V> on public surfaces.
• record for value-like types, class for entities with identity.
• using declarations for anything IDisposable.
• EF Core: no lazy loading, be explicit with Include. Never query inside a loop. Project to a DTO rather than returning entities from an API.
• Blazor: keep components small, prefer parameters over cascading values, dispose subscriptions in IAsyncDisposable, and never block on async in a lifecycle method.

Python

• Match the project's Python version and dependency manager. Do not introduce a second one.
• Type hints on every public function signature. Run the project's type checker if it has one.
• Docstrings on public functions: one line on what it does, then args, returns, and raises if non-obvious.
• f-strings for formatting. No % and no .format() in new code.
• pathlib.Path over os.path.
• Never use a mutable default argument.
• Catch specific exceptions. A bare except: or except Exception: needs a comment justifying it, and must re-raise or log.
• Context managers for anything that must be released.
• Keep module-level code to definitions; put behavior behind if __name__ == "__main__":.

PowerShell

• #Requires -Version 7.0 at the top of every script.
• Comment-based help (.SYNOPSIS, .DESCRIPTION, .PARAMETER) on every script and public function. This repo already does this consistently — match the existing tone, which explains reasoning rather than restating syntax.
• Approved Verb-Noun names only (Get-Verb lists them).
• [CmdletBinding()] and typed param() blocks. Use [ValidateSet()] and friends instead of hand-rolled validation.
• $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' at the top; wrap fallible calls in try/catch. -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue suppresses output but not failure — do not use it as error handling.
• Support -WhatIf / -Confirm via SupportsShouldProcess on anything destructive.
• Output objects, not formatted text. Never use Write-Host for data; reserve it for interactive messages.
• Full cmdlet names in scripts; aliases only at the interactive prompt.
• Quote paths. Use Join-Path rather than string concatenation.

Shell (bash)

• set -euo pipefail at the top.
• Quote every variable expansion: "$var", not $var.
• [[ ]] over [ ], $(...) over backticks.
• Check a command exists before relying on it.

Tests

• Test names state the behavior and the condition: Returns404_WhenUserDoesNotExist.
• Arrange / Act / Assert, visually separated.
• One behavior per test. Assert on outcomes, not on interactions, unless the interaction is the contract.
• Deterministic: no real clock, no real network, no ordering dependence, no shared mutable fixture state.
• A bug fix ships with a test that fails before the fix and passes after.
• Never weaken an assertion to make a test pass. If a test is wrong, say so explicitly and explain why before changing it.

Git

• Imperative subject under 72 characters, naming the change not the activity: Fix null deref in token refresh, not fixed stuff.
• Body explains why when it is not obvious from the diff.
• One logical change per commit. Do not bundle a refactor with a fix.

Context handoff

Subagents start from an empty context. The orchestrator is the only component that sees the whole session.

• .opencode/handoff.md is the session ledger. The orchestrator is its only writer; every other agent reads it and never edits it.
• Read the ledger before starting work. It records decisions already made and approaches already ruled out. Do not relitigate either.
• If a brief contradicts the ledger, say so rather than silently picking one.
• Never assume knowledge of an earlier turn. If the brief does not contain a fact you need, ask for it or go read the file yourself.

Signals

You cannot change your own model. When you hit a wall, the router re-routes you - but only if you say so in a form it can act on mechanically. Emit exactly one of these as the first line of your reply, then stop:

CONTEXT_OVERFLOW: <what you still need to read, and roughly how much>
ESCALATE: <the specific judgment you cannot ground in code you have read>
BLOCKED: <the missing fact, decision or credential>

CONTEXT_OVERFLOW

Emit this the moment you can see the job needs more context than you have - before you start dropping earlier files to make room. Say what remains unread and roughly how large it is, so the router can pick a window that actually fits instead of guessing again.

Silently truncating and answering anyway is the worst thing you can do. The answer looks confident, the missing file was the one that mattered, and nobody finds out until it ships.

ESCALATE

For judgment, not size. Use it when the task turns on a design decision, or when you have failed twice on the same problem. Two failed attempts is the limit; a third on the same model is waste.

BLOCKED

For a missing input: an unstated requirement, an unavailable credential, a decision only the user can make. Name exactly what you need.

Stopping is a valid, valuable outcome. The router escalates you without argument - these signals are the system working, not a failure report. Guessing to avoid looking stuck is the failure mode this design exists to prevent, and it costs more than stopping: a wrong answer still has to be validated, bounced, and redone.

Validation

Your work will be checked by a different model from a different family. Write for that reader:

• Say what you changed and why, in terms someone with no session history can verify.
• Flag anything you were unsure about. An acknowledged uncertainty gets checked; a hidden one ships.
• If you are the validator: you were chosen precisely because you did not write the code. Re-derive the hard parts rather than agreeing with the reasoning you are shown, and verify that every API used actually exists.