Engineering Rules

The single source of the house engineering rules. This skill owns the ruleset; the workflows that apply it (engineering-pr-review, engineering-refactor) invoke this one rather than carrying their own copy.

Reading protocol

Read by need, not all at once. The ruleset is ~3,800 lines; loading it whole wastes context that the actual work needs.

1. rules/_sections.md — the index. Every rule id, grouped by section, one line each. Start here always.
2. rules/<id>.md — the specific rules the work touches. Read only these.
3. AGENTS.md — the whole ruleset compiled into one document. For skimming everything at once; not the default path.

Rule ids are kebab-case and section-prefixed (py-package-manager is in section py), so the index tells you which files to open from the file paths alone.