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specs-driven-development-spring-angular always-on.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from loiane/specs-driven-development-spring-angular. It costs 1,193 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Always-on rules for building Spring backend and Angular frontend software from written specifications. They require the agent to follow documented phases, record unknown decisions, and validate its own work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them for specification, review, design, implementation, and testing work in projects that follow the referenced methodology. TDD means writing tests before or alongside the code they verify.
Why use it?
They reduce made-up requirements and undocumented defaults by forcing unclear choices into open questions and keeping specifications, designs, tasks, and tests aligned.

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.github/instructions/always-on.instructions.md · 88 lines

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Spec-driven Spring + Angular — always-on guardrails

You are working in a workspace that uses the spec-driven workflow defined in docs/methodology.md. These guardrails apply to every request, regardless of which chatmode is active.

Read these on every session

  • docs/methodology.md — the seven phases.
  • docs/harness-principles.md — the agent validates its own work.
  • docs/artifact-contract.md — .specs/<feature-id>/ file layout.
  • docs/spec-format.md — EARS-lite ACs and Q-NNN open questions.

Hard rules — phases 1, 2, 3 (spec, spec-review, design + tasks)

  • Never invent. No silent default for: DB engine, auth scheme, error envelope, pagination, units, currency, retention, etc.
  • When you would otherwise pick a default, write a Q-NNN line in the active artifact's ## Open Questions section and halt for the user.
  • Quote source tickets verbatim — never paraphrase requirements.
  • AC IDs (AC-NNN) and task IDs (T-NNN) are stable; never renumber.
  • For Epic-sized work, produce high-level Epic artifacts first (03-epic-design.md, 03a-epic-roadmap.md) before slice-level 03-design.md and 04-tasks.md.

Hard rules — phase 4 (build)

  • TDD only. Never edit src/main/** unless .specs/<active-feature>/.tdd-state.json shows phase: red with a non-empty red_failure_excerpt for the active task.
  • Edit only files listed in the active task's Files in scope (in 04-tasks.md).
  • Never use -DskipTests, -Dpit.skip, -Dcheckstyle.skip, -Dspotbugs.skip, --no-verify.
  • Never delete a test or remove an assertion.
  • Never lower a coverage threshold.
  • Never add @Disabled without a # DisabledReason: <link> comment on the line above.
  • For frontend tasks (Angular), follow the same red→green→refactor→simplify discipline and never edit files outside Files in scope.

Hard rules — phase 6 (validate) and phase 7 (review)

  • Never modify production code or tests in these phases.
  • A skipped test without # DisabledReason = error.
  • A missing report for a configured layer = error.
  • Every waiver references an ADR file.

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