Grounding Before Coding
by riekelte67b7af9ac74No license5 starsListed Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026Repository updated 3 weeks ago
Use when starting any non-trivial change, investigating a bug, or working in unfamiliar code - before the first line is written. Also use for pure investigation with no change planned yet - "dig into this", "figure out why", "sometimes the export is empty", intermittent errors after a deploy. Encodes the ground-first discipline: map the real code and data, quote evidence, never guess conventions. Use whenever a change or a conclusion is about to be built from belief instead of from the tree, even under time pressure.
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