From 86ddaf7fb17562f3e389ee79a3205af0594b5fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Kim Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 14:37:07 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] docs: prohibit competitive product references --- AGENTS.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index d3168a15..0f93c821 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Stave is an installable product. Do not bake author-specific machine state into - Use Conventional Commits for every commit. - Keep PR titles in Conventional Commits form and keep the subject lowercase. +- Do not name competing or reference products as design or implementation inspiration in tracked files, code comments, tests, fixtures, commit messages, PR titles or bodies, issues, changelogs, or release notes. +- Describe requirements and behavior independently. Avoid wording such as "copied from," "inspired by," "parity with," or "-style." +- Before publishing, review the diff and GitHub metadata for direct references to products used during research or comparison. +- Do not suppress attribution required by a license, dependency notice, security disclosure, or other legal obligation. Stop and request maintainer or legal review when required attribution would conflict with these rules. - For explicit PR requests, use `skills/stave-worktree-pr-flow/SKILL.md` when the runtime supports repo-local skills. - For explicit release requests, use `skills/stave-release/SKILL.md` when the runtime supports repo-local skills. - Ordinary commit or push requests must not change `package.json`, `CHANGELOG.md`, or semver tags unless the user explicitly asks for release work.