Engineering Loop

Deliver a verified change with minimal supervision and proportionate checking. Start with one agent. Delegate only when authorized and independent work or review coverage justifies the overhead. Follow applicable repository and team requirements; this skill adds no ticketing or mandatory-agent process.

Establish the baseline

1. Read applicable AGENTS.md files and repository documentation.
2. Record the requested behavior, constraints, and observable done conditions.
3. Inspect the branch and working tree; preserve unrelated user-owned changes.
4. Before changing shared behavior, trace affected callers, consumers, and tests using targeted search or an available code graph. Expand along relevant paths.
5. Identify repository-native validation and run the smallest safe baseline that separates pre-existing failures from task regressions.