Make the canon enforce itself.

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Contents: F1 Single Responsibility Principle, F2 Intention-Revealing Names, F3 Don't Repeat Yourself, F4 Simplicity, F5 Self-Documenting Code, F6 Encapsulation.

The rest of the Foundations tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.
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Contents: A1 Screaming Architecture, A2 Three-Tier Hoisting, A3 Stable Dependencies Principle, A4 Common Closure Principle, A5 Thin Handlers, A6 Bounded Contexts, A7 Coupling First, A8 Push to the Source of Truth, A9 Liskov Substitution Principle, A10 Interface Segregation Principle, A11 Dependency Inversion Principle.

The rest of the Architecture tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.
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Contents: S2 Cyclomatic Caps, S3 Parameter Object, S4 Guard Clauses, S5 Inline-First.

The rest of the Style tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.
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name: prickles-process
description: "Use at the start of every task in this repository, and before declaring it done, committing or opening a pull request. Holds the rest of the Prickles Process tenets, P1 Test-First Development, P2 Spec-First Execution, P3 Definition of Done, P4 Continuous Quality Feedback, P5 Shift-Left Quality, P6 Leave it Better Than You Found it, P7 Short-Lived Branches with AI+Human Review, P8 Architecture Decision Records, which bind you exactly as the always-loaded Prickles entry does."
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Contents: P1 Test-First Development, P2 Spec-First Execution, P3 Definition of Done, P4 Continuous Quality Feedback, P5 Shift-Left Quality, P6 Leave it Better Than You Found it, P7 Short-Lived Branches with AI+Human Review, P8 Architecture Decision Records.

The rest of the Process tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.

## Prickles P1: Test-First Development

In typed languages, the type is the first test. Define the signature, leave the body as a hole, let the compiler reject the inconsistencies the unit test would have caught, then write the test for the residue.

Test the public contract rather than the internals. The unit's contract is the test's contract. Mock cascades through private collaborators are the smell, not the rule.
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Contents: TS1 Living Documentation, TS2 Specification by Example, TS3 Parameterised Scenarios, TS4 Real-Dependency E2E, TS5 Structural Assertions, TS6 Behaviour Testing, TS7 Test Isolation, TS8 One Concept Per Test.

The rest of the Testing tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.

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name: prickles-ai
description: "Use at the start of every task in this repository, before relying on an API, library or version you have not checked, and before declaring the work done. Holds the rest of the Prickles AI Collaboration tenets, AI1 The Intern Pattern, AI2 Persistent Brief, AI3 Working Context, AI4 Verifiable Specs, AI5 Verify the API, AI6 Self-Review Pass, which bind you exactly as the always-loaded Prickles entry does."
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Contents: AI1 The Intern Pattern, AI2 Persistent Brief, AI3 Working Context, AI4 Verifiable Specs, AI5 Verify the API, AI6 Self-Review Pass.

The rest of the AI Collaboration tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.

## Prickles AI1: The Intern Pattern

Plan before you type. Use Plan Mode (Claude Code), spec-first prompts (Cursor), or a written outline checked into the PR description. The plan names files, decisions and the verification step.

Approve in writing. The plan is a contract. Approval is the gate. No edits until a human (or the orchestrator agent) signs off.
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name: prickles-tooling
description: "Use before configuring or changing a linter, formatter, type checker, duplication check or CI gate in this repository, and whenever one of them fails. Holds the rest of the Prickles Tooling tenets, TA1 Linter as Law, TA2 Duplication Detection, which bind you exactly as the always-loaded Prickles entry does."
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Contents: TA1 Linter as Law, TA2 Duplication Detection.

The rest of the Tooling tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.

## Prickles TA1: Linter as Law

Encode the limit before the violation. Line count, complexity, parameter count, file size, equality, return annotations, type-file naming, barrel files, import direction: all in `eslint.config.mjs` or its language equivalent.

When the linter trips, fix the code. Never disable the rule inline. The disable comment is the bug. The rule is doing its job.
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Contents: PT1 Patterns Are Vocabulary, PT3 Every Pattern Has a Failure Mode.

The rest of the Patterns tenets of the Prickles canon, v4.0.0. Each tenet's first paragraph is its rule, in the always-loaded Prickles entry. What follows binds you exactly as that rule does.
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