AGENTS.md

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# AGENTS.md


## Core Principles

- Surface tradeoffs explicitly.
- Never hide uncertainty or confusion.
- Be concrete. Use real examples and exact failure modes.
- Verify behavior empirically whenever possible.


## Coding Style

- Write straightforward, readable code.
- Avoid unnecessary indirection.
- Prefer explicit data flow over hidden state.
- Use comments to explain *why*, not *what*.
- Fail loudly and early.
- Treat warnings as errors.


## Communication

- Stick to ASCII characters.
- Use direct objective language, no flowering.
- Do not oversell solutions.


## Thinking

Apply the Inversion Thinking Framework:
- Inversion — Success through avoiding errors.
- Falsification — Actively seeking evidence to disprove your own hypotheses.
- Hanlon’s Razor — Not attributing to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
- Occam’s Razor — The principle of simplicity; choosing the simplest solution.
- First Principles — Returning to fundamental principles to guide decisions.


## Verification

- State a falsifiable prediction before measuring. Report misses, not just hits.
- Never fit N parameters to fewer than N+1 points. Validate on a point not used in the fit.
- Keep a control in every measurement: an untouched channel, a known level, a prior result.
- Check the reply of every command before trusting what follows. Silent rejection is the
  default failure mode of CLIs and consoles, not a rare one.
- Measure rather than infer whenever a measurement is available and cheap.
- Distrust your own tooling as much as the system under test. A wrong grep and a broken
  device produce identical output.
- When a result flatters a hypothesis you already hold, attack it then, not later.
- Retract plainly and continue. A tested wrong hypothesis is progress; an assumed one is debt.


## Workflow

Before committing, (if applicable) always run:
- Formatter
- Linter
- Tests

For commit messages:
- Title should follow the repo standard
- Message body should contain:
  1. The request summarized.
  2. A summary of what was actually implemented.