dev-general-practices

Foundational development practices standardize software quality by enforcing rules for agent development, documentation, dependency governance, and tool usage to ensure deterministic behavior across all projects.

You can enforce code quality and governance by codifying hard rules for tool usage, requiring explicit user approval for dependencies, and applying non-prompting tools for file and content operations across your team.

Explicit user approval for dependencies is required when standardizing behavior and governance to prevent unsafe operations and ensure compliance across all software projects within a team or organization.

The best way to standardize documentation and research is to apply codified rules for discovering, validating, and referencing standards, while governing document proliferation within your organization.

Non-prompting tools improve file operations by ensuring deterministic behavior and preventing unsafe actions, which standardizes content operations and maintains compliance with foundational development practices.

You need to load Core Development Rules first, then load relevant standards for tool usage, file operations, and search operations as needed to ensure cohesive engineering practices across your projects.