Instructions for hecatehq/hecate: Hecate is an open-source local AI operations console for supervised agent work. It combines a model gateway, Hecate Chat, queued agentloop tasks, External Agent supervision, projects, memory, approvals, artifacts, usage, and OpenTelemetry traces into one operator surface.
Instructions for hecatehq/hecate: Agent guidance is provider-neutral. Keep docs-ai/ as the source of truth and use adapter files only to help a specific product discover that guidance.
Instructions for hecatehq/hecate: For Go backend/runtime work, read AGENTS.md plus docs-ai/skills/backend/SKILL.md. Use docs-ai/core/verification.md for the verification ladder.
Instructions for hecatehq/hecate, a project described as: AI workspace and runtime for projects, chats, providers, memory, approvals, and supervised agents.
Use when planning a substantial change before coding — new wire fields, new persisted things, new endpoints, new persistent UI surfaces, cross-package refactors. Produces a structured plan, not code.
Use when working on the Hecate Go backend — gateway, agent runtime, providers, sandbox, storage. Keeps backend work aligned with Hecate's "operator-grade control plane, runtime-aware" thesis.
Use for routine repo upkeep: recurring health checks, branch/worktree cleanup, stale docs or product-language drift, dependency drift review, and maintenance PR prep.
Use when working in internal/providers/ — outbound HTTP adapters to LLM upstreams (OpenAI-compat, Anthropic). Owns the api↔providers parallel-struct boundary and the seven-step "add a wire field" chain.
Use when working on the Hecate native desktop app in tauri/. Covers the Tauri 2.x Rust layer, sidecar lifecycle, platform bundling, and the gateway↔webview integration.
Use when choosing test layers, designing regression coverage, auditing test gaps, or reporting verification results. Pushes for evidence, not assumptions.
Use when working on the Hecate operator UI in ui/. Keeps frontend work aligned with Hecate's operator-console workflows, runtime-debugging focus, and React/Vite stack.