Shell Development

Scope

• Use for shell scripts, hooks, CI shell blocks, command pipelines, and local automation glue.
• Do not use for cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, host, or network operations; use operating-infra.
• Do not use for application logic that belongs in Python, Go, TypeScript, or another project language.

Read references

• Read patterns.md before non-trivial scripts or pipelines.
• Read tools.md when choosing external CLI tools or parsing structured data.
• Read testing.md before adding or changing shell tests or quality gates.

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