AGENTS.md
- you must visit here and read the three documents or watcher hooks will prevent work from getting started: _research\01--repo-rules-and-info
- OSS-first is mandatory for substantial features, admin surfaces, workflow surfaces, platform primitives, and infrastructure capabilities
- before proposing custom implementation, complete an OSS adoption pass with named candidates, links, and explicit rejection reasons
it doesn't existis invalid unless backed by that OSS adoption pass- required OSS adoption proof must include: search scope, exact queries used, sources searched, candidates reviewed, and explicit rejection reasons
- you do not need to prove universal nonexistence; you must prove a credible bounded search was performed before custom work is allowed
- no OSS survey means no implementation plan approval
- do not write transient stdout/stderr captures, verification logs, or temp helper files into the repo root
- route transient logs to
.codex-tmp/task-logs/ - route temporary scripts and scratch files to
.codex-tmp/tmp/ - if a log is durable task evidence, store it under the active
_research/topic directory instead of the repo root