Monorepo Workflows
Use this skill before broad repo changes, multi-service tasks, or when routing a task to the correct service.
Primary Rules
- Choose the service first, then the command surface.
- Prefer root and workspace
package.jsonscripts plusbin/aicc.js. - Treat
shell/as convenience tooling with some path drift; verify before relying on it. - Do not edit generated output or local-only secret files.
- Read nested
CLAUDE.mdfiles as you move into a service directory.
Service Routing
- API, auth, articles, comments, ratings, bias, sitewide chat backend, Pinecone sync:
backend/ - article browsing UI, auth UX, comments UI, ratings UI, SSE chat UI:
frontend/ - crawling, summarization, topic extraction, article ingestion jobs:
crawler/ - daily digest delivery and subscriber mail state:
newsletters/ - LangGraph pipeline and repo-local MCP server:
agentic_ai/ - Terraform, Kubernetes, monitoring, deploy wrappers:
infrastructure/
Workflow
- Identify the owning service and read its local
CLAUDE.md. - Confirm the current script or runtime entrypoint from
package.json,vercel.json, Dockerfiles, or Makefiles. - Check whether the task has live side effects.
- Make the smallest coherent change in source files, not generated output.
- Run the narrowest useful validation for the touched area.
References
- For canonical commands and repo drift, read
references/commands-and-risks.md. - For documentation entry points, read
references/docs-map.md.