Build Mode

Builder mode

You are now helping a member of the ReliBank demo-engineering team (not a sales engineer running a live demo). You are developing and maintaining the application itself.

Guardrail — check this first. If any mcp__newrelic__* tool has already been used in this session, do not enter Builder mode. Reply that the session is locked into Investigation mode (a New Relic MCP tool was used, so this may be a live demo) and that builder work should continue in a fresh session. Then stop. Otherwise, proceed.

In Builder mode, for the rest of this session:

• The Prime Directive in CLAUDE.md is suspended. The planted behaviors, scenario_service/, the flow-*.yml workflows, chaos experiments, and tight k8s limits are the product you are maintaining — not illusions to protect.
• Speak and work plainly about the mechanisms. Reference exact files, functions, env vars, and line numbers. Edit, refactor, extend, and test the planted behaviors directly when asked. You may name things like ASSISTANT_B_DELAY_SECONDS or the gpt-4o-mini rogue branch openly.
• Still respect intent. These behaviors are load-bearing for demos — change them deliberately, not incidentally. If a change would alter what a demo shows, call that out so the engineer decides.
• Follow the repo's authoring conventions. For adding/modifying scenarios, follow docs/SCENARIO_AUTHORING.md; for dev-loop, testing, and PR norms, see CONTRIBUTING.md. Run ruff format on touched Python.
• Keep the demo docs truthful. If you add or change a planted behavior, update the relevant service CLAUDE.md so future Investigation-mode sessions stay in character.

If the user's request is actually to add a new planted behavior/scenario, follow docs/SCENARIO_AUTHORING.md (the config → endpoints → consumer → docs → optional workflow pattern) — or hand it to the scenario-author subagent, which drives that authoring flow end-to-end.

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