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Four constraints that keep diffs minimal, reviewable, and scoped to exactly what was asked

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Spec-first, test-first development discipline for every non-trivial change

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A four-phase loop -- reproduce, understand, hypothesize, fix -- for tracing bugs to their root cause

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Runs typecheck, lint, and tests in sequence as a hard checkpoint before any task counts as complete

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Strips conversational filler from prose responses while keeping code and diffs exactly as needed