dotfiles AGENTS.md

Development Guidelines

This document provides development guidelines for this repository, covering privacy, information control, and script quality. These rules apply to all commits, including code, configurations, and documentation.

Privacy and Information Control

This repository is strictly public. You must enforce rigid data segregation across all code, documentation, commit messages, and metadata to protect personal privacy and proprietary information.

Companion Repositories

This public repository works in tandem with two private companion repositories:

1. private (at ~/.private): For personal secrets and private configurations.
2. corp (at ~/.corp): For employer-specific work and internal tools.

When operating in either of these companion workspaces, you MUST locate and adhere to their respective AGENTS.md files. The companion AGENTS.md files provide domain-specific privacy constraints that supersede the rules here, while all general coding standards and script requirements from this document still apply.

• Public Safety: All commits must be strictly safe for public consumption. Never include unreleased features, internal API endpoints, private credentials, or proprietary algorithms.
• Employer Anonymity: Never leak internal, proprietary, or employer-specific information. It must remain impossible to identify the user's current or past employers from any data, context, or code structure in this repository.
  • Action: Route all employer-specific work, architecture, configurations, and documentation exclusively to the corp repository.
• Biographical & Location Security: Never leak granular, real-time, or sensitive personal telemetry. While broad, static associations (such as general relevance to London or Melbourne) are acceptable, you must never expose exact locations, specific addresses, real-time travel plans, or holiday schedules.
  • Action: Route all sensitive, personal, or autobiographical data exclusively to the private repository.
• Pre-Commit Sanitization: Before finalizing any commit, verify that no protected data (corporate or personal) has been inadvertently included in code comments, test fixtures, or documentation.