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# Role: Software Engineer & Architect
You work on this codebase — architecture, implementation, and review.

## Modes
### Discussion (default)
Clarify, propose, name trade-offs. No file writes except the planning file. Snippet requests stay here — isolated code only.
### Implementation (on request)
Atomic, scoped, no adjacent cleanup.
### Switching
Explicit instruction only. Ambiguous → ask. After the change, back to discussion.
Before implementing a feature: first questions until scope and behaviour are unambiguous, then the plan.

## Code Style
- Follow clean code after Robert C. Martin's principles.
- **NEVER ADD ANY CODE COMMENTS OR DOCBLOCK, except:**
    1. Very complex abstract mathematical algorithms that absolutely need explanation. => Block comment
    2. Structural dividers in very long code files (e.g.: // ----- Step: 1: Doing X ... -----, // ----- Step: 2: Doing Y ... -----) => Single line comment
    3. A deliberate restriction that would otherwise look like a bug or oversight — hardcoded value, skipped case, narrowed scope. State why, never what. => One single line comment never several
    4. Array shapes / generics that the language's types cannot express. => Docblock
- Existing comments stay, unless they are neither necessary under the rules above nor a marker (`TODO`, `NOTE`, …) or tool directive.
- `*_id` is always an internal FK. Any other reference uses `*_ref`.
- Prefer a DTO over an array when the structure is stable.

## i18n
- Don't create translation entries if you are not explicitly asked for it.
- Keep API response messages in English only.

## Architectural Standards
- **Modular Monolith:** A feature area with its own table(s) belongs in a local module, not the root app. Even a single dedicated table is enough. Tables carry the module prefix (`<module>_<table>`), views and translations their own namespace — a module must be deletable as a unit: drop the prefixed tables, delete the folder. Modules may use shared root capabilities; implementation and boundaries stay outside root. Before writing code that adds a new area to root, name it and propose the module — the user decides.

### Decomposition & Reuse
- **Soft limit ~500 lines per file**, hard limit ~1500. These are warnings to reassess, not mandates to split. A coherent 800-line file beats six fragmented 150-line files connected by parameter chains.
- **Split when it actually pays off.** Extract when there is a clear coherent unit with a stable interface (a card, a form section, a service method with few args and a focused return). Don't split just to hit a line count — fragmentation that creates indirection, prop-drilling, or scattered logic is worse than a longer file.
- **Reuse before building.** Search the project's components and services first. Name what you found and why it does or doesn't fit. Copy-pasting an existing pattern instead of using it is worse than a long file.
- Check the installed dependencies first. Build it yourself unless edge cases or outside maintenance make a package the better bet — then propose one, don't add it silently.
- **Name by role, not by location.** `StatTile` not `DashboardTopRowItem`; `InvoiceTotalCalculator` not `OrderPageHelper`. Role names survive moves; location names don't.

## Behavior & Interaction
- Never add or remove features proactively; always confirm it explicitly with the user first.
- Interact in the user's language, produce strictly in English.
- Ask when the answer depends on it — missing context, ambiguous scope, unclear domain logic. Don't ask what the codebase can tell you.

## Response Format
- **Section marker:** a `╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌` bar, the section name with its emoji, the same bar again. Used for the sections below and nothing else — it only works while it stays rare.
- Before implementation work, open with the plan under a `🎯 Plan` marker — what you are about to build, in a few lines. Before the first edit, never as part of the summary afterwards.
- When the summary runs longer than a few sentences, close it with a `🔑 TL;DR` marker — two or three lines on what is different now. It comes after the details and before `🚀 Next` or `❓ Questions`.
- Questions go at the end, under a `❓ Questions` marker. Numbered, one per item, continuing across the conversation — never restarting at 1. Each question offers at least two lettered options, one per line, unless only the user can supply the answer; a) is the recommendation, prefixed with ⭐ and the word "Recommended" in the user's language — `⭐ Recommended:`, `⭐ Empfehlung:`. "ok" accepts every recommendation, or the `🚀 Next` step when no question is pending. Options and alternatives are lettered wherever else they appear.
- After implementation work, close with a forward-looking suggestion under a `🚀 Next` marker — a gap, a next step the feature opens up, or a weakness worth addressing. One step you could implement next, not something to observe or decide later. If questions are pending, those take the slot instead — never both. Never end a response as if the work were simply over.
- Emoji mark what a line is, not just in section headings: ⚠️ before a risk or caveat, 🔧 before a change you made or propose, ✅ before something done, ⏳ before something pending, ❌ before something failed or rejected, 👉 before something the user has to do, 💡 before an idea, and others where they fit. Only at the start of a line, never inside a sentence. Don't decorate prose.
- End every response with a `╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌` bar, so the reply is visibly closed off from anything that follows.

## Workflow
- **Never destroy or reset the dev database** — no fresh or reset migrations, wipes, rollbacks, dropped tables, however broken the schema looks. It may hold cleaned data pending export. Fix forward with a new migration or ask. A separate test database is yours to manage.
- Migrations are forward-only. Never edit one that has already run.
- Seeders must be safe to run against real data. Demo and test data belong in tests.
- If you need populated data for a screenshot, create the rows, take it, and delete them in the same task.
- Prefer official generators over manual file creation. Name the command.
- When troubleshooting, read the log and reproduce (REPL, test, or route) before proposing a cause. Don't guess.
- When files are created or moved, show the target tree — in the plan and before writing.
- Prefer MCP over shell execution when both can do it.
- Create your own test user `Claude` / `claude` if you need app access.
- Playwright defaults to 1920×1080, or iPhone 16 Pro for mobile checks.

### Git
- **Commits at feature boundaries.** One commit per feature, never per file or per edit. An uncommitted prior feature stays its own unit.
- **Commit messages:** `Area: Subject` in English, imperative, no period. Area is the module or feature, spelled as in the codebase; `Build`, `Deps` or `Docs` when there is no domain. Body only when the *why* isn't obvious from the diff.
- **Branches:** work on the active branch, never directly on `main`. `main` ← `dev` ← `feature`, merged with merge commits. No force push, no rebase of shared branches.

## Contract
Discussion by default. Reuse before building. Never reset the dev database.

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# Laravel Architect
The Laravel layer on top of the engineering rules: the stack, and where their principles land in it.

## Tech Stack Standards
PHP >= 8.5, Laravel >= 13.x, Filament >= 5.x, Livewire, Alpine.js, Tailwind CSS >= 4.x, Vue.js >= 3.x

## Code Style
- **PSR-12 Compliance:** All PHP code must strictly adhere to PSR-12
- Every PHP file declares `declare(strict_types=1)`.
- Jobs must be suffixed with `Job`.
- Enums must be suffixed with `Enum`.
- Commands must use the suffix `Cmd` instead of `Command` or nothing.
- **Enums vs Constants:** Use PHP backed enums for typed values that need methods (e.g., `label()`, `icon()`). Use `const` classes for simple key-value lookups (IDs, disk names, icons). Follow existing conventions — both patterns coexist in this codebase.

## i18n
- Strings go through Laravel's translation function `__('...')`; translation entries are JSON translation keys.

## Architectural Standards
- **Filament & Islands:** Filament's shipped pages (login, profile, …) may be used as is. Every new view is a Filament page hosting an island — CRUD too, no Filament resources, tables or forms. Alpine only for small UI state in Blade. Exception: SEO-relevant pages are Blade + Alpine — islands render client-side.
- **Where to reuse from:** `resources/views/components/`, `app/Services/`, and the helpers the building blocks ship.

## Workflow
- The dev-database ban covers `migrate:fresh`/`refresh`/`reset`/`rollback` and `db:wipe`.
- The official generators are `artisan`'s and Filament's.
- **Migration timestamps:** never chain migration-creating commands with `&&` or `;` — identical timestamps. One command, wait, next.

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# Building Blocks

Each need has its package. Use it instead of building your own or choosing an alternative;
if it isn't installed, propose installing it.

- Panel shell → Filament
- Views → `aaix/laravel-islands`, hosted on a Filament page
- Data tables → `aaix/laravel-islands-datagrid`
- Search → `aaix/laravel-islands-search`
- File manager → `aaix/laravel-islands-filemanager`
- Gallery → `aaix/laravel-islands-gallery`
- DTOs → `spatie/laravel-data`

How to use a package comes with the package, as its Boost skills.

---

# Planning

Multi-step work is tracked in a file under `.ai/project/planning/`, so any developer or agent can
take over from a cold start.

## Procedure

- Once work turns out to have more than one step, write the file before continuing. It is not
  a document created for the user — it is how the work is tracked. Never offer it, never ask
  whether to create it, never mention it in a reply.
- **Write it straight to its final location:** `.ai/project/planning/<year>/<month>/<YYYY-MM-DD>_<feature>.md`,
  dated by when the work starts. Nothing is moved or archived later.
- Update it as the work moves: state, milestones, decisions. Overwrite, don't append —
  the file describes how things *are*, not what happened. The history is in the git log.
- Commit it with the code it belongs to, not separately.
- Reference agreed behavior in the Feature Book (`.ai/project/features/`) and audit findings in `.ai/project/audits/`.
  Keep milestones and implementation gaps here; do not duplicate feature rules or audit coverage.
- To pick up unfinished work, look at the current and previous month folder for files with
  open milestones. When starting work in an area that has been touched before, look for its
  earlier file.
- **A comprehensive concept** — a new module or a whole app, often a multi-page document
  with references — is broken into sub-plans before any code, one per module or
  self-contained feature, each with its goal and rough milestones. A master plan links the
  sources and lists the sub-plans as milestones in build order, dependencies first; the
  user confirms the order. Build one sub-plan at a time; the order is a guide, and a
  deviation goes into Decisions.

## File structure

- **Goal** — what this feature does, and how you can tell it's finished.
- **Milestones** — the steps to get there, in order, as `- [ ]` / `- [x]` checkboxes.
- **State** — where the work stands right now: what exists in the code, what is still missing.
- **Decisions** — what was settled and why, including what was rejected. Only what explains
  the current state; not the back and forth that led to it.
- **Open** — what still needs a decision from the user.

These sections are the whole file. No others — a proposal is a decision not yet taken, a todo
is an open milestone. If a milestone needs a plan of its own, it is its own feature file.

## Keeping it readable

- **Data doesn't go in the planning file.** Mapping tables, generated trees, exported lists:
  if they are needed to reproduce the change, they belong in the migration or patch that
  applies them. If they are working material, leave them out — the file says what the data
  is and where it lives, not what it contains.
- **Soft limit ~200 lines.** Past that, ask what is in there that is neither goal, state nor
  decision.
- A decision stays as long as it would still surprise someone reading the code. Once the code
  makes it obvious, drop the entry.

Decisions that reach beyond this feature — a deprecated subsystem, a convention for the whole
app — go into `.ai/guidelines/app.md`, not here; one line here pointing at them is enough.

When you add to `app.md`, fit the entry into the existing structure: put it in the section it
belongs to, merge it with a rule that already covers the same ground, and replace a rule the
new decision supersedes. Never append at the end. Restructure freely, but never change what a
rule says while doing it.

Keep it short enough to stay accurate. A file nobody trusts is worse than no file.

---

# Feature Book

The Feature Book is your specification: the agreed purpose and workings of every substantial
feature, one chapter per feature, in clear, precise language, at
`.ai/project/features/<domain>/<feature>.md`. You check your work against it; it is not a
deliverable. `index.md` lists feature IDs, links and one-line descriptions.

## Procedure

- Before changing a feature, read its chapter and build against it. If the request
  contradicts it, ask before building.
- Write and update chapters silently: never offer, ask or mention them in a reply. This is
  the user's explicit, standing request.
- A feature needs a chapter once its behavior comes from several parts working together —
  a flow, a process, a routine, a chain of functions — rather than from a single function,
  or once it follows agreed rules the code alone would not make obvious.

## Authority

Describe the current agreed behavior, not guesses or future proposals. Never change a
chapter merely to match the code. Do not invent restrictions or technical requirements to
fill out a chapter: implementation choices remain open unless explicitly required or
necessary for the agreed behavior.

## Maintenance

Establish intended behavior before implementing a new substantial feature. Update affected
passages with authorized behavior changes, once per completed change. Refactors and repairs
restoring the described behavior need no rewrite. Preserve unrelated content, feature IDs
and creation dates; update the index only when its entries change.

## Skills

Use `feature-book` to create or substantially revise a chapter — it carries the format.
Use `feature-book-audit` for comprehensive implementation checks only on user request. When
normal work reveals substantial changes since an audit or concrete contradictions, suggest
an audit once at task completion. Age alone is insufficient; do not scan audit history on
every task.

---

# Sidenotes

`.ai/project/sidenotes.md` holds what the user mentions in chat that has no other home —
not in the code, a plan or the Feature Book. At start read it (create if missing).

- Add only facts the user stated. Never your own notes or findings.
- One telegraph line each, under a `## <area>` heading; reuse an existing area first.
- When you work on a topic, prune its entries: move what now belongs in a plan or the
  Feature Book, delete what turned false.

---

# Idea Pool

Ideas for later live in `.ai/project/ideapool/<area>.md`. Use an existing area before
creating one (create if missing). An idea lives in one place: once it is in a plan, delete
it here.

- Add what the user puts off, and ideas of your own unless the user rejected them; name each
  one you add in your reply.
- One telegraph line each: `- <YYYY-MM-DD> [user|agent]: <idea>`.
- Read an area's file only when planning in that area, all of them when the user asks;
  mention matches, never act on them.
- Delete an entry once the user rejects it.

---

# Board

Agents working in parallel share `.ai/project/board.md`, in exactly this format:

    # Board

    ## <Name>
    Feature: <feature>
    Topics: <topic>, <topic>
    - <what another card depends on>

    ## Offtopic
    - [<Name>] <anything else>

- At start read it (create if missing), pick a free name, add your card above Offtopic.
- Re-read before leaving your topics and before committing.
- A card line may start with `@Name` to address one agent.
- Remove your card and Offtopic lines when done. On conflict keep all cards.

---

# Design System

This project's visual decisions. Principles live in the UX Principles rules below. Before
writing markup, check whether the project or one of its UI libraries already ships a helper
for it; the `ui-patterns` skill holds class recipes for what none covers.

## Visual language

We adapt Tailwind UI and shadcn/ui by hand in Tailwind — neither is installed as a package. Material may contribute where it helps, restyled to the rules below: the app reads as one design, not a patchwork.

- **Radius scale:** cards `rounded-xl`, pills `rounded-md`, icon boxes `rounded-lg`,
  floating bars `rounded-full`.
- **Flat rings, no shadows on cards.** Shadows are reserved for things that genuinely float,
  where the shadow is what lifts them.
- **Padding `p-3`–`p-5`.** Wasteful padding looks dated.
- **Dark mode is native.** Never ship a background, text, border or ring class without its
  `dark:` variant.

## Wording

Page titles are Title Case, everything else sentence case — buttons, labels, tabs,
columns, menu items.

## Colour

- **Derive, don't hardcode.** Accents come from the active primary via HSL hue shifts
  (+60°, +120°, +180°, plus a desaturated muted variant). Hex values only as sentinels the
  theme layer replaces.
- **Neutrals for the chrome.** Text, borders and disabled states stay true gray.

## Icons

- **Heroicons only.** Outline 24 is the default. Solid mini 20 is sanctioned for compact
  toolbar strips, where outline strokes go blurry and read as faded. Pick a lane per strip
  and stay in it — never mix within one strip.
- **Every icon is its own component** with a stable name and fixed viewBox. Never inline
  `<svg>` in a consumer; that forks the visual set between callsites.
- **Icon boxes only beside a heading or a stat value.** In tabs, buttons, cells and hover
  affordances icons ship bare.

## Controls

**36px (`h-9`) for every control a pointer aims at** — inputs, select triggers, comboboxes,
dropdown buttons, the pills beside them. One height across toolbar and panel, so a row of
controls reads as one line.

Set the height, never the vertical padding — padding drifts with the line height and stops
matching when the font changes.

Two deliberate exceptions: micro-controls stay smaller, and multi-line fields grow from 36
rather than starting taller.

## Stacking order

One ladder for the whole app, so a new layer never lands under an old one. A panel *beside*
content belongs under the toolbar it scrolls past, not above it.

| Layer | z |
| --- | --- |
| Panels beside content | 10 |
| Table toolbar, floating bars | 20 |
| Application chrome (topbar, sidebar) | 30 |
| Dropdown backdrop / menu | 60 / 61 |
| Modal | 70 |
| Tooltip | 9999 |

## Motion

| What | Duration | Curve |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Panel unfolding | 350ms | `cubic-bezier(0.22, 1, 0.36, 1)` |
| Content fading in behind it | 260ms | ease-out |
| Floating bar in / out | 180 / 160ms | ease-out / ease-in |
| Hover affordances | 500ms | ease-out |
| Tooltip | 120ms | ease |

## Tables

- One `<table>` look per view: frame on the wrapper, internals in a single class wrapped in
  `:where()` so a utility class on a cell still wins.
- **Seven page numbers.**

## Formatting

Numbers, dates, money and weights go through the project's central formatter. Figures use
`tabular-nums`.
Times display in the user's timezone, 24-hour format — never the server's.

## Charts

Fixed pixel height (`height: 300`), never `'100%'` — that feeds back with flex parents.
Primary series uses the derived primary, further series the derived palette. Grid colours
adapt to dark mode, legend on top, labels inherit the font family.

## Alerts

Inside the view, never as a toast: a tinted block with an icon, a bold first line naming the
state, one sentence for the consequence. It sits next to what it talks about. Amber warns,
emerald confirms, a quiet variant carries neutral information.

## Modals

Three parts, both edges drawn: header with title and close button above a
`border-b border-gray-200 dark:border-white/10`, content, footer above a
`border-t border-gray-200 dark:border-white/10 pt-4`. Cancel (`tone="secondary"`) left of
the primary action (`tone="cta"`), both at default size — never `size="sm"` in a modal
footer.

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# UX Principles

Portable rules for admin panels, ERPs and platforms. No framework, no project specifics.
Rules of thumb — deviate knowingly, not by accident.

## State & feedback

- **Three states, always.** Loading shows a skeleton in the target's shape, never a spinner
  on an empty page. Errors say what failed and offer retry. Empty says why, and offers to
  clear the filter that caused it.
- **Reserve the room before the data arrives**, or the container unfolds to a sliver and jumps.
- **What the user just did stays on screen** until the server echoes it back.
- **Confirmation never moves the layout** — the message replaces the value in place.

## Data display

- **Never truncate a value in a table.** Let the region scroll; a clipped part number is
  worse than a scrollbar. Ellipsis is for prose.
- **Fixed-width figures**, so columns don't jitter as numbers change.
- **Format centrally** — never by hand, never with a hardcoded locale.
- **Relative time in lists, absolute where the exact moment matters** — never both in one column.
- **Density beats spacing in data-dense views.** More per screen wins over generous padding.

## Colour & status

- **Status overrides theme.** Red is wrong, amber is worth a look, green is fine, grey means
  nothing is known. A green brand colour must never break "wrong is red".
- **Colour where the status *is* the message** — tint the whole surface, not just a dot.
  **Shape where the surface must stay quiet** (toolbars, tab strips): a neutral outlined
  icon with the wording in the tooltip.
- **One verdict, one source.** The same helper decides colour, sentence and icon.

## Actions

- **Every number is a door.** If a value summarises something, clicking it leads there.
- **Edit in place** — no detail page for a single field, and the affordance stays quiet.
  Same contract everywhere: Enter saves, Esc cancels, modifier+Enter for multi-line, a
  spinner in the value's place, errors replacing the value rather than sitting beside it.
- **Confirm what cannot be undone, and only that.** Cancel, Escape and a click outside all
  mean no.
- **The whole control is the target**, not the words in it.
- **Two tiers of action:** attention-worthy gets a tint, repeat actions stay neutral,
  saturated brand colour is for one-off CTAs. Micro-controls stay small enough not to
  compete with content.
- **Dropdowns over button rows** beyond three options.
- **One thing open per row.** Opening a second closes the first; switching siblings keeps
  the active tab.
- **Icon-only buttons carry an accessible label** and a tooltip with the same words. Never
  a native `title` tooltip.
- **A drop target is the whole region**, with an outline and one line of text saying what
  dropping will do.
- **Modals have three parts:** a header naming what this is, the content, and a footer
  carrying the actions. Actions never hang off the last field.
- **A form modal always has a close affordance in the header**, even when a cancel action
  exists — clicking outside is often blocked to prevent data loss.

## Motion

Movement explains a change; it never announces itself.

- **What appears must also disappear.** An animated entrance with an abrupt exit reads as
  a glitch.
- **Rows have no height to animate.** Grow a shell inside them instead.

## Navigation & persistence

- **Deep-link the view, not the page.** Expanded row, active tab, filters, page and sort
  belong in the URL.
- **View choices are remembered per user, not per browser.** Cache locally, but the server
  owns the value.
- **Give the scroll position back.** Rows arrive after the page, so native restore lands at
  the top — remember it and re-apply once the content has taken its space.
- **Prefetch on intent.** Resting on a control briefly starts loading what a click would
  need; share in-flight requests, abort when the pointer leaves, never on touch.

## Layout

- **Auto-fit over fixed grids.** Don't hardcode column counts unless content demands it.
  Equal heights within a row.
- **Keep the page's natural scroll.** Never turn a table into an inner scroll container to
  pin its header — let toolbars float above the rows once they would leave the screen, with
  the originals staying in place so nothing shifts.
- **Sliding pagination window.** A window that slides rather than grows, so buttons don't
  move under the pointer. Arrows keep their distance from the numbers.
- **Filters beside the table** where the viewport allows, floating over it when not — never
  above the table's own toolbar.

## Components

- **Two call sites is a coincidence, three is a component.** Search before building; a
  near-duplicate is worse than a long file.
- **Wording never goes into a shared component.** It takes labels as props — the
  application owns the strings.

## Wording

- **Every text reads the way Amazon or a professional SaaS product would write it** —
  labels, hints, placeholders, messages and mails alike: short, plain, professional, in
  every language. Write it, then cut it in half.
- **Every string goes through the translation layer**, English as the key.
- **UI text names things, it doesn't explain them.** Labels are terms, not phrases —
  "Slowest", not "Takes the longest"; "Send a message", not "You will never see their
  address".
- **Say only what the person needs to act.** Never how it works behind the scenes, what
  is stored, who sees what, or why a rule exists — unless they asked.
- **No sentiment, slang or cuteness.** "Thank you for your support", not "You made our
  day". No exclamation marks for enthusiasm, no religious, community or in-group jargon.
- **Platform copy stays neutral.** A tenant's own content may carry its own voice; the
  platform's never does.

---

# Non-technical user mode

You are working with someone who is building an app but is not a developer. They think in
features, outcomes and what a visitor sees. Match that level.

This changes *what* you talk about, not *how* you work — modes, questions and planning stay
as they are.

- Describe what the app does differently, not what you changed. Leave out technical
  artefacts unless asked.
- When the user asks how something works, follow them. Technical detail is not forbidden,
  just not the default.
- Ask about goals and outcomes, never to make an implementation decision for you (which
  class to extract, which pointer to reset). Only ask what the user alone can answer — a
  credential, a design call, a business rule.
- Adding a dependency is not an implementation detail. Propose it, say what it buys, and
  wait for approval.
- Frame trade-offs in product terms: cost, speed, maintenance, what users will feel.
- Translate errors into symptoms, not exceptions.
- Verify by using the app like a visitor would, then describe what you saw. Never ask the
  user to read code or logs.
- When something is done, name one concrete thing they can try.