standards

Overview

My non-negotiable conventions — the floor every other skill stands on. When one applies, follow it exactly; it overrides generic defaults. Flag a real conflict once, then proceed (don't rehash).

Commits

• One line only: type(scope): subject — English, imperative. No body unless I explicitly ask. Detail belongs in the PR description, not the commit.
• No trailers: never add Co-Authored-By:, and never add a 🤖 Generated with Claude Code footer to commits or PR bodies.
• Pick the Conventional Commit type honestly: feat/fix cut releases; chore/docs/refactor/test don't. Scaffolding is chore, not feat.
• In release-please + auto-merge repos the amend window is ~seconds. Get the one-line message right the first time.
• Bots are exempt: dependabot / release-please author their own commits with structured multi-line bodies (machine-readable footers, changelogs). That's expected — the one-line rule governs commits I write, not bot commits.
• Integrate PRs by rebase — never squash, never a merge commit. main stays strictly linear; release-please keeps its release PR rebased on main automatically.

Branches

• Never commit straight to the default branch. Feature work goes on a short-lived branch (feat/…, fix/…, chore/…), pushed and opened as a PR — even in a solo repo.
• One branch = one purpose; keep it small. Integrate by rebase (see Commits), then delete the branch. main stays strictly linear.
• Bots are exempt: release-please and dependabot manage their own branches/PRs.

Pull Requests

• Title: same type(scope): subject as a commit — English, imperative, one line.
• Body — clear and simple to read, by sections (the structure lives here, not in a repo template file): What & why (1-2 sentences) → Changes (short bullets) → Testing (commands run + result) → Notes (risks / screenshots / follow-ups). Drop any section that doesn't apply — scannable, no filler, no checklist boilerplate.
• No trailers, no footer: never a 🤖 Generated with Claude Code footer and never Co-Authored-By: — same rule as commits.
• Link the issue with Closes #N when there is one.
• No canned assurance prose — "ensured all tests pass", "followed the existing conventions", "preserved the original behaviour". It reads as generated because it is padding: say what changed. Watchlist in comms/references/ai-tells.md.

Tests

Fewer, higher-signal tests over a high count. Before writing one, ask: "If I delete this, what real bug could ship undetected?" If the answer is "none / TypeScript catches it", don't write it.

• No mock-only tests. Don't vi.fn()/spy a port and assert it was called — that tests wiring, not behavior. Build a small in-memory fake of the port and assert the observable outcome.
• Prefer integration-flavored tests: one test exercising use case → service → repository (memory repo) beats three mock-at-every-seam unit tests.
• Skip trivial passthroughs: a use case that just forwards to an already-tested service needs no test of its own.
• A VO getter is not a test. Test the behavior the value object enforces (validation, equality, immutability), not the generated property.
• Coverage % is not a target. 80% with rich behavioral assertions beats 100% of trivial ones.

Repo hygiene

• Never git add -A / git add . / git add --all. Inspect git status --short and stage explicit paths.
• Repo holds only project code + README (+ LICENSE/config). Internal docs, specs, plans and checklists live outside the repo in a sibling ../<repo>-notes/ dir — never committed, and never .gitignore'd either (gitignoring a doc is itself the violation; just don't stage it).
• Skill defaults are wrong here — override them. brainstorming, writing-plans and task-flow default to saving specs/plans at docs/superpowers/... inside the repo and then committing them. Do NOT follow that. When bootstrapping a project, create ../<repo>-notes/ as a sibling of the repo before the first spec/plan write, and target it from that very first Write. The first time a spec lands in docs/ inside the repo, the rule is already broken.
• If an internal doc reaches the repo anyway: git rm it (or rewrite history with the user's OK if already pushed) and move it to ../<repo>-notes/. Never "fix" it by adding the path to .gitignore.
• Code, identifiers, log strings, file/var names, UI strings → English. Comments minimal — only the non-obvious "why". Watchlist of generated-code tells in references/code-tells.md.

Inclusive language

Applies to identifiers, comments, commits, log strings and user-facing copy in every locale. Swap the term at write time; if a neutral genuinely reads worse, flag it once and pick the least-bad rephrase — don't revert to the excluding form.

• Code / technical (English) — never introduce the legacy term in new code:
  • master/slave → primary/replica, leader/follower, or main/worker (by domain); the default branch is main.
  • whitelist/blacklist → allowlist/blocklist (or allowed/blocked).
  • grandfathered → legacy / pre-existing; sanity check → quick check / validation.
  • dummy → placeholder / sample; man-hours → person-hours; manned → staffed.
  • Don't churn third-party/library names you don't control — fix what's yours.
• User-facing copy (ca/en/es/eu/gl/va) — neutral & collective, never split forms or neologisms:
  • Don't assume the reader's gender: impersonal or neutral 2nd person — "te damos la bienvenida", not "bienvenidos".
  • Don't assume family shape or roles: "la familia de…", not "los papás/padres de…"; "tu familia" / "persona adulta", not "mamá/papá".
  • Neutralize with real words, not "/" splits and not "-x/-e": "peques" / "la infancia" (not "niños/as", not "niñes"); "participantes" / "quien juega" (not "usuarios/as"); "el equipo". If no neutral term fits, rephrase the sentence rather than gender it.
  • Skip ableist/violent filler ("está de locos", "te vas a volver loco") when a plain neutral exists.
• eskills:ux-bar enforces this for UI strings; eskills:standards for code, commits and identifiers; eskills:comms for text sent to a person outside this machine.

IDs

• Default to UUID v7 (uuidv7, RFC 9562) for any newly generated entity ID — no need to ask each time. The ~1 KB dependency is acceptable; time-ordering is worth it.
• No-flag exceptions: short URL-friendly slugs (not UUIDs at all). If a project already standardized on v4, follow it — don't refactor existing IDs unprompted.

Before pushing

Run all the gates CI runs, as one batched call — not just tests:

lint + typecheck + tests

• Prefer the project's single verify/check script if it exposes one. Passing CI is the floor, not a stretch goal.
• Non-negotiable whenever the task ends in a push (especially "súbelo para que aplique release") — lint failures gate releases too.

Pushback discipline

Once I validate a decision ("OK, hazlo"), stop adding caveats or re-validation on the same point. Group critical warnings once, up front. Push back again only for genuinely new, un-flagged risks (security, data loss).