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riekelt/principal-engineer

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principal-engineering Use when doing any non-trivial engineering work - implementing, debugging, refactoring, configuring, operating, or in…

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writing-unit-tests Use when writing or refactoring unit tests - a new test file, added cases, a flaky test, an unreadable one. Encodes b…

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verifying-before-done Use when about to say "done", "fixed", "passing", or "shipped" - or when reporting the outcome of any change. Encodes…

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grounding-before-coding Use when starting any non-trivial change, investigating a bug, or working in unfamiliar code - before the first line …

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testing-changes Use when deciding what tests a change needs - a feature, a bug fix, a refactor, any behavior change - or when reviewi…

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guarding-architecture Use when a change crosses module boundaries, adds a dependency direction between modules, touches a critical path, or…

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keeping-one-source-of-truth Use when adding data, config, state, constants, an enum-like string, a cache, or anything that could exist in two pla…

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scoping-changes Use when deciding how big a fix should be, when scope is drifting mid-task, when a plan is being quietly trimmed to f…

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operating-safely Use when an action touches live systems, shared state, or things that do not come back - deleting, overwriting, resta…

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handling-failures Use when writing or touching any error path, catch block, fallback, default value, retry, or degraded mode - in any l…

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adding-dependencies Use when about to add, update, vet, or remove a dependency - a package, library, SDK, GitHub action, base image, or v…

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