engineering-standards

The owner's engineering preferences, portable to any project — two tiers (a non-negotiable floor, a risk-calibrated judgment layer), the twelve principles behind every call, delivered versus hygiene, and the human residual. Use when deciding how much rigor a change deserves, whether something counts as delivery, or what to do while blocked. Not this loop's machinery, state machine or WIP rule (see agents-configuration), and not what done means concretely (see definition-of-done).