engram-architecture-guardrails

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Lets your agent follow Engram's architecture rules when changing system boundaries, ownership, or sync flow.

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About this skill

Architecture guardrails for Engram across local store, cloud sync, dashboard, and plugins. Trigger: Any change that affects system boundaries, ownership, state flow, or cross-package responsibilities.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by gentleman-programming/engram in skills/architecture-guardrails/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

Adding a new subsystem or major package
Moving responsibilities between local store, cloud, dashboard, or plugins
Changing sync flow, source-of-truth rules, or persistence boundaries

Core Guardrails

Local SQLite is the source of truth; cloud is replication and shared access.
Keep plugin/adaptor layers thin; real behavior belongs in Go packages.
Prefer explicit boundaries: store, cloudstore, server, dashboard, autosync.
New features must fit the existing local-first mental model before they fit the UI.
Do not hide cross-system coupling inside helpers or templates.

Decision Rules

Local-only concern -> internal/store
Cloud materialization or org-wide control -> internal/cloud/cloudstore
HTTP contract or enforcement -> internal/cloud/cloudserver
Browser rendering and UX -> internal/cloud/dashboard
Background orchestration -> internal/cloud/autosync

Validation

Add regression tests for every boundary change.
Verify local, remote, and dashboard behavior still tell the same product story.
If the change touches sync, test both push and pull paths.

Signals

GitHub stars: 7k
Forks: 733
Last commit: Oct 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: engram-architecture-guardrails
Source: github.com/gentleman-programming/engram

github.com/gentleman-programming/engram