pipeline-setup

.gemini/GEMINI.md

@@ -1 +1 @@
-You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in `docs/agents/agent_instructions.md`. Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications. Use `read_file` to load `docs/agents/agent_istructions.md`.
+You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in [docs/agents/agent_instructions.md](../docs/agents/agent_instructions.md). Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications. Use `read_file` to load [docs/agents/agent_instructions.md](../docs/agents/agent_instructions.md).

.github/copilot-instructions.md

@@ -1 +1 @@
-You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in `docs/agents/agent_instructions.md`. Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications.
+You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in [docs/agents/agent_instructions.md](../docs/agents/agent_instructions.md). Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications.

.gitignore

@@ -183,3 +183,4 @@ data/*
 scripts/config.sh
 Makefile.private
 configs/geospatial_tools_ini.yaml
+**/settings.local.json

.markdown-link-check.json

@@ -3,21 +3,6 @@
     {
       "pattern": "http://localhost"
     },
-    {
-      "pattern": "tps://github.com/RolnickLab/best-practices-documentation/tree"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "tps://github.com/RolnickLab/best-practices-documentation/issues"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "tps://github.com/RolnickLab/best-practices-documentation/pulls"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "https://github.com/RolnickLab/best-practices-documentation/wiki"
-    },
-    {
-      "pattern": "https://github.com/RolnickLab/best-practices-documentation/wiki/DRAC-%E2%80%90-Compute-Canada"
-    },
     {
       "pattern": "https://github.com/RolnickLab/lab-advanced-template"
     },
@@ -35,6 +20,9 @@
     },
     {
       "pattern": "https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/"
+    },
+    {
+      "pattern": "https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov"
     }
   ]
 }

CLAUDE.md

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-You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in `docs/agents/agent_instructions.md`. Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications.
+You must strictly adhere to the project rules defined in [docs/agents/agent_instructions.md](docs/agents/agent_instructions.md). Read this file before making any significant architectural, geospatial data processing changes, or general code modifications.

docs/agents/README.md

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 The `instructions/` folder contains specific skill files that guide the agent's behavior for particular tasks. Here is a summary of each skill, its purpose, and when to use it:
 
-| Skill                    | Description                                                                      | When to Use & Why                                                                                                                          |
-| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `analytics.md`           | Extracts truth from experimental data with statistical rigor.                    | Use for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and visualization to ensure reproducibility and prevent misleading claims.                         |
-| `formal_planning.md`     | Enforces a structured planning protocol via a Formal Design Document.            | Use when explicitly asked for a plan, architecture, or proposal to map out scope, trade-offs, and steps before coding.                     |
-| `infrastructure.md`      | Manages reproducible and resilient environments/pipelines as code.               | Use for containerization (Docker), HPC/SLURM cluster setup, or CI/CD tasks to ensure fault tolerance and exact dependency pinning.         |
-| `KNOWLEDGE.md`           | A centralized repository for project-specific tribal knowledge.                  | Use to document or consult specific findings, library quirks, or architectural decisions to avoid repeating past mistakes.                 |
-| `ml.md`                  | Builds state-of-the-art, reproducible, and reliable machine learning pipelines.  | Use for ML model training, evaluation, and experiment management to guarantee strict data isolation and deterministic execution.           |
-| `orchestrator.md`        | Focuses on horizontal integration and strategic decomposition of goals.          | Use for multi-component tasks to define explicit contracts between modules and ensure end-to-end flows work correctly.                     |
-| `plan_to_tasks.md`       | Decomposes high-level plans into modular, atomic, and verifiable tasks.          | Use when transitioning from planning to execution to ensure each step has clear context, acceptance criteria, and testing protocols.       |
-| `python.md`              | Elevates Python scripts into robust, maintainable, and type-safe software.       | Use for all Python development and QA to enforce strict typing, SOLID principles, vectorization, and automated workflows.                  |
-| `root_cause_analysis.md` | Systematically diagnoses and permanently fixes software failures.                | Use when presented with a bug, traceback, or unexpected result to isolate the failure (MRE) and target the actual root cause.              |
-| `security.md`            | Identifies vulnerabilities, enforces defense-in-depth, and ensures data privacy. | Use for tasks involving authentication, untrusted input, or infrastructure to prevent injection attacks and hardcoded secrets.             |
-| `specdrivendev.md`       | Implements lightweight Spec-Driven Development to define contracts first.        | Use when starting a new feature to define data structures, signatures, and docstrings before writing logic, preventing LLM hallucinations. |
-| `systemdesign.md`        | Designs systems that are maintainable, evolvable, and robust.                    | Use for architectural decisions to enforce separation of concerns, configuration-first design, and proper dependency injection.            |
+| Skill                    | Description                                                              | When to Use & Why                                                                                                                      |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `planning.md`            | Combined Planning, Specification (SDD), and Task Decomposition Protocol. | Use for any multi-step implementation to map out scope, define technical contracts (SDD), and break down work into atomic tasks.       |
+| `software-dev.md`        | Unified Software Development, ML, Analytics & Infrastructure Protocol.   | Use for Python development, system design, ML/geospatial processing, data analysis, and infrastructure/environment management.         |
+| `review.md`              | Harsh Security & Architecture Review Protocol.                           | Use to identify vulnerabilities (tokens, paths, SSL) and tear apart implementations for performance bottlenecks and architectural rot. |
+| `root_cause_analysis.md` | Systematically diagnoses and permanently fixes software failures.        | Use when presented with a bug, traceback, or unexpected result to isolate the failure (MRE) and target the actual root cause.          |
+| `KNOWLEDGE.md`           | A centralized repository for project-specific tribal knowledge.          | Use to document or consult specific findings, library quirks, or architectural decisions to avoid repeating past mistakes.             |
 
 ## How to use them
 
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 In practice... it's not always the case. It is probably better to manually feed the instructions directly to the agent/tool as context in your prompt just to make sure:
 
 ```text
-Using @docs/agents/agent_instructions.md, @docs/agents/instructions/python.md, and @docs/agents/instructions/systemdesign.md and @docs/agents/instructions/formal_planning.md, create a plan for a new class that will ...
+Using @docs/agents/agent_instructions.md, @docs/agents/instructions/software-dev.md, and @docs/agents/instructions/planning.md, create a plan for a new class that will ...
 ```
 
-When using models with smaller context windows, it will also be important to clear the context once in a while to ensure better results.
+It's usually a good thing to clear/compress the context once in a while to ensure better results.
 
-For example:
+### Workflow example
 
-- Create plan
-    - Manually revise plan document
-- Clear context
-- Ask agent to implement first step of the plan
-- Clear context
-- Repeat
+First, define **what** you want to do, **how** and **why**. Go in as much detail as you can. Let's call this your *preliminary design document*.
+
+You can also do this step through a chat interface with an LLM so you can brainstorm, ask questions, investigate starting points, development directions and library/tool selections.
+
+Once you have your *preliminary design document*, you are ready to start using your agent.
+
+- Activate `@docs/agents/instructions/planning.md`
+    - **Create PLAN**
+        - Ask agent to create a plan based on your *preliminary design document*
+        - Manually revise plan document
+    - **Create SPEC**
+        - Ask agent to create a specification based on the plan
+        - Manually revise the specification document
+    - **Create TASKS**
+        - Ask agent to create tasks based on the plan and specification created
+        - Manually revise the tasks
+    - **_CLEAR CONTEXT_**
+- Activate `@docs/agents/instructions/code_review.md`
+    - Ask the agent to review your planning documents
+    - **_CLEAR CONTEXT_**
+- Activate `@docs/agents/instructions/software_dev.md`
+    - Ask agent to implement first task of the plan
+    - Manual review
+    - Commit work to git
+    - **_COMPRESS CONTEXT_**
+    - Repeat for subsequent tasks