Tortoise ORM Enterprise Patterns

Opinionated, production-grade development patterns for Tortoise ORM (async Python ORM). Apply these to every Tortoise codebase unless the project's own CLAUDE.md overrides them.

Rule Priority (read first, every time)

When advice conflicts, resolve in this order:

1. User's project rules (this repo's CLAUDE.md, explicit instructions in the conversation) — highest priority
2. Official Tortoise ORM docs (https://tortoise.github.io/)
3. Context7-sourced patterns (/tortoise/tortoise-orm)
4. Other internet consensus (projectrules.ai, blog posts)

If the user states a rule (e.g. "use UUID primary keys"), it wins over everything below.

The Five Hard Rules (non-negotiable)