/cultural-norms

name: engram-cultural-norms
description: >
  Cultural and collaboration norms for Engram contributors and agents.
  Trigger: Starting substantial work, reviewing changes, or defining team conventions.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  author: gentleman-programming
  version: "1.0"

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• Starting a new feature or refactor
• Reviewing implementation direction
• Writing or refining project conventions

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Cultural Rules

1. Product coherence beats local cleverness. 2. Every visible feature should feel connected to the full Engram experience. 3. Avoid generic enterprise UI/architecture drift. 4. Prefer explicit decisions and documented rules over tribal knowledge. 5. Quality means behavior, naming, tests, docs, and UX all line up.

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Collaboration Rules

• Push back on fake UX and fake controls.
• If a rule is organizational, enforce it on the server.
• If a pattern repeats, capture it as a skill or project convention.
• Treat design, architecture, and business rules as one system.