meat/.agents/rules/quality.md
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Quality Guardrails

Use these while building. Do not turn every task into a full review; apply as lightweight pressure before adding or changing structure.

Module Shape

  • Filenames should match the primary export exactly, including casing.
  • Exports and higher level functions should appear before private functions in a file.
  • Prefer a primary type plus matching namespace for behavior tied to that type.
  • Functions that operate on a domain type should live in that type's namespace.
  • Avoid scattered single-name function exports for domain-specific behavior.
  • Truly generic helpers may stay standalone when they do not naturally belong to a domain type.

Design Pressure

  • DRY: centralize rules and policy, not incidental similarity.
  • KISS: prefer the smallest clear structure that solves the actual problem.
  • YAGNI: do not add speculative extension points, options, compatibility layers, or abstractions.
  • SOC: keep parsing, validation, IO, orchestration, and policy separate when mixing them creates change pressure.
  • Cohesion: each module/type/function should have one clear job and one clear reason to change.
  • Coupling: avoid making callers know protocol internals, nested implementation details, or unrelated runtime policy.
  • Locality: one behavior should not require excessive jumping across unrelated files or helpers.
  • Naming/API Clarity: names should expose behavior and domain meaning; avoid vague wrappers, false promises, and boolean-blind APIs.

Refactor Bias

  • Prefer moving behavior to the domain owner over creating utility bags.
  • Prefer local private helpers over exported helpers until another real caller exists.
  • Prefer deleting compatibility code when there are no shipped consumers, persisted data, or explicit requirements.
  • Prefer small reshapes that preserve behavior over broad rewrites.