Follow Our Standards

Follow our standards

A drift corrector for alignment to the consuming organization's engineering standards. The method, re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation, lives in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md. Read it; this file adds only what is specific to standards discipline.

Resolve the standards source

The authority is the consuming organization's own conventions; never work from recall of them. Resolve a readable copy per the method doc's ladder:

1. The consuming project declares its standards source. When the repo's own CLAUDE.md / .claude/rules/ names where the conventions live, a shared standards repository, a docs tree, a conventions directory. Resolve and read THAT. A local checkout is preferable to a remote fetch when one exists; a remote read (via the host's CLI or web tree) is the fallback.
2. No external source declared → the repo's own conventions. Read the conventions the repo carries itself. Its CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules/, CONTRIBUTING, docs, and re-anchor those.
3. Nothing declared anywhere → the portable baseline below.

State which source resolved so the citations are traceable.

Loading. Relevance-routed progressive disclosure

Do not load the whole convention set. Route through its own index. A top-level README or agent-instruction file, and pull only what the work in flight needs. Discover the applicable docs through that front door rather than hardcoding a doc map that will drift. Always re-anchor the core design principles; load a specific convention (testing, naming, error-handling, domain modelling, and the like) only when the current work touches it. When the repo you are working in declares its own design-doctrine docs, add them to the route set and load one when the work in flight is designing what that doctrine governs.

The principles this re-anchors

Re-assert the core engineering principles as active for the rest of the task, as pointers into whatever docs resolved above, read there, not restated here:

• single source of truth / DRY;
• low coupling and high cohesion;
• change-together-lives-together, the vertical slice;
• SOLID;
• clean, intention-revealing code.

When no convention source resolved, these five are the portable baseline the audit runs against.

Skill-specific audit notes

• Each finding cites the doc it breaks. Path plus the principle at issue. A finding without a citation is an opinion, not a standards violation: locate it in the conventions or drop it.
• Respect a managed / locally-owned seam when the standards source declares one. Some standards distributions mark which downstream files are upstream-owned (change via a reviewed sync) versus locally customizable. When such a manifest exists, never propose editing a managed materialization as the source of a change; route it upstream. If the source declares no such seam, this note does not apply.
• Route shared-policy fixes upstream, never silent deviation, never silent conformance. A change that belongs in the shared standards, not this repo, is named and drafted for that repo's proper change path and routed to the human, rather than patched into the downstream copy. "Routed" means proposed and OFFERED: name the change, draft it, and offer to open the standards PR. Do not open that PR yourself without the user's explicit opt-in (the plugin-wide outward-artifact gate in the method doc). When the work disagrees with a standard, that disagreement goes upstream too. Do not quietly ignore the standard, and do not quietly comply with one you have reason to think is wrong. (This is the upstream-routing path that /discipline:reason-dont-recite hands a standards disagreement to.)

What this skill does NOT do

• Does not design the sync pipeline. Upstream/downstream sync and dedup design are out of scope; this skill only respects an existing managed / locally-owned seam when one is declared.
• Does not open the standards PR itself. It names and drafts the shared-standards change and routes it to the human; opening the PR. Or any outward artifact. Waits on the user's explicit opt-in, mirroring the OFFER gate the sibling /discipline:recheck-against-upstream-deep applies to its work-items routing.
• Does not fabricate a citation or a violation. Cite the doc that actually resolved; report "conforms" honestly when it does.

Gotchas

• When only a remote fetch or the portable baseline resolved, cite THAT, not an assumed local path a reader might expect, since the standards may live in several places.
• The convention set evolves; trust the source's own index over any doc list reproduced from memory.