Engineering Principles

Shared writing standard

Before you write user-facing prose or artifact prose, read and apply the shared ASD-STE100 skill. Preserve this skill's required output contract.

If the shared skill or profile is unavailable, state that limit in the response. This notice is the only exception to an exact-output rule. Then apply ASD-STE100 as closely as possible from the available context.

Use references/principles.md as one shared vocabulary. Apply it proportionally: prefer the smallest design that gives clear responsibility, testability, and change leverage.

Select the branch

• Implementation: treat every applicable principle as a design and acceptance constraint while coding.
• Review: inspect the requested scope and report material violations using references/review-checklist.md. Do not edit.
• Explicit refactor: fix violations inside the approved scope and validate affected behavior.
• No context or scope: ask what work or code to evaluate. Do not mutate files.