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engram-cultural-norms

Cultural and collaboration norms for Engram contributors and agents. Trigger: Starting substantial work, reviewing changes, or defining team conventions.

personAuthor: jakexiaohubgithub

When to Use

Use this skill when:

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

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.

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.