trellis-before-dev

Discover project-specific coding guidelines by reading spec indexes from the .trellis/spec directory. This process surfaces relevant backend, frontend, unit-test, or docs conventions for your target package before implementation begins.

A pre-development checklist is a set of shared guides and conventions reviewed at task initiation. It ensures developers understand and follow project-specific coding standards before writing any code across packages like cli/ and docs-site/.

Apply Trellis spec indexes by initiating your task and reading the relevant specs for your target package. This injects applicable backend, frontend, unit-test, or docs guidelines directly into your workflow before you code.

Yes, you need to review shared guides before coding in a Trellis project. Reading these guides and pre-development checklists ensures you understand the project conventions and coding standards required for your specific package.

The best way to ensure coding standards are followed is to discover and read .trellis/spec indexes at task initiation. This pre-flight step surfaces all relevant guidelines and shared thinking guides before you start coding.