Setting Up Projects

Prerequisites

Load engineering-principles before this skill. It provides the foundation: invest early, pit of success, safety net, strict tooling, and explicit over clever. This skill builds on those principles with concrete project-shape decisions, layout patterns, and a bootstrap checklist.

For deeper architecture decisions about boundaries, layers, and framework choices, load architecting-changes after this skill.

Choose the Shape First

Choose structure based on expected change axes and future callers, not only conventions. The shape determines where code lives, how it is tested, and how it grows.