Tilt Up

Principles (Always Active)

These apply whenever working with Tiltfiles, Tilt errors, or dev environment bootstrap:

Fix the Tiltfile, Not the Symptoms

• Fix the source config directly - Tiltfile, Dockerfile, k8s manifest, or helm values
• Never add shell workarounds - no wrapper scripts, no || true, no try/except pass
• Never hard-code ports, paths, hostnames, image tags, or container names that should be dynamic
• Never add fallbacks that mask the real error - if a resource fails, the failure must be visible
• Never add sleep/retry loops for flaky dependencies - fix dependency ordering via resource_deps() or k8s_resource(deps=)
• Never add polling for readiness that Tilt already handles - use k8s_resource(readiness_probe=) or probe configs

Express Dependencies Declaratively