/cultural-norms
Cultural and collaboration norms for Engram contributors and agents. Trigger: Starting substantial work, reviewing changes, or defining team conventions.
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Cultural and collaboration norms for Engram contributors and agents. Trigger: Starting substantial work, reviewing changes, or defining team conventions.
SKILL.md
cultural-norms.SKILL.mdname: 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.
Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
Repo: Gentleman-Programming/engram
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