trellis-before-dev

Pre-development checklists consolidate project-specific rules into a guided task plan, ensuring developers consult applicable standards and shared guides before coding to maintain consistency across modules.

The best way to align task approaches is by integrating shared thinking guides with spec indexes, which creates a guided task plan that enforces consistency across teams during planning and coding.

You read development guidelines from a spec index by parsing the pre-development indexes and checklists, which surface the applicable standards for a given package to inject into your workflow before coding.

You need to consult pre-development checklists when starting work on a new package or task, as this surfaces the applicable standards required to refresh conventions and prevent rework before implementation begins.

Yes, the workflow requires a specific directory structure, as it discovers and consolidates project-specific development guidelines from a .trellis/spec directory before starting implementation to enforce consistency.