Toju/agents-docs/LESSONS.md

Agent Lessons

Durable rules for AI agents working on this project. Read this file at session start. Append to it when this session produces a correction worth remembering.

How to use this file

At session start: scan the rules below. If any match the work you're about to do, apply them.

During the session: if the user corrects you, reverts your edit, or re-prompts with the same instruction — that is a signal to record a lesson before closing the task. See the trigger list in agents-docs/AGENT_WORKFLOW.md.

Format of a lesson: every entry uses the four-slot template below. Brevity matters — if you can't state the rule in one sentence, the lesson isn't sharp enough yet.

### <short imperative title>

- **Trigger:** what you were about to do that turned out wrong (one line, concrete enough to pattern-match against)
- **Rule:** what to do instead (one sentence, imperative voice)
- **Why:** the consequence of getting it wrong — past incident, hidden constraint, user preference
- **Example:** one concrete instance, ideally a code or command snippet

Keep lessons sharp. Tag each rule with one or two tags in square brackets after the title (e.g. [testing] [migrations]) so future agents can grep for relevance. If a rule no longer applies, delete it — stale rules drown the real ones.

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Lessons

Verify lint exits 0 before claiming done [verification]

• Trigger: about to report a task as complete after running tests but skipping ESLint.
• Rule: run npm run lint from the repo root and confirm exit code 0 before any "done" claim.
• Why: npm run test only runs the toju-app Vitest suite — it doesn't cover the server, Electron, or website packages. ESLint (flat config in eslint.config.js) is the universal check across every package; type-style violations slip through tests and break Gitea Workflows for the next agent.
• Example: npm run lint && echo OK — only claim done after seeing OK. For Electron type errors specifically, also confirm npm run build:electron succeeds (it invokes tsc -p tsconfig.electron.json).