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Investigate before changing

Read the project's architecture and local instructions. Find a similar solution, understand its owner and inspect the public contract, tests and consumers. Ask only when investigation leaves a consequential ambiguity.

Explain a decision through concrete effects on ownership, behavior and coupling. Keep routine implementation details out of the product interface. Report what changed, how it was checked and what remains limited.

Respect repository conventions and existing work. Prefer the smallest coherent change that solves the requirement and leaves the next engineer a clearer system.