KISS — Keep It Simple

Before Applying

If .agents/stack-context.md exists, read it first. Apply this principle using idiomatic patterns for the detected stack. For framework-specific details, use context7 MCP or web search — don't guess.

Principle

Given two solutions that produce the same result, prefer the one that is easier to read, understand, and change.

Why This Matters in Production

Simple code survives contact with production. Complex code breaks in ways that are hard to diagnose, hard to fix, and hard to verify the fix didn't break something else. Every incident response starts with someone reading code under pressure — if they can't understand it quickly, the outage gets longer.

Complexity compounds. A "slightly clever" solution today becomes an "incomprehensible" solution after six months of patches by three different developers.

The most dangerous bugs hide in code that's too complex for any single person to hold in their head.

Rules