# Important Rules

* never, ever mention claude or anthropic in commit messages.  do not use attribution

* after each change, run "make fmt".

* after each change, run "make test" and ensure all tests pass.

* after each change, run "make lint" and ensure no linting errors.  fix any
  you find, one by one.

* after each change, commit the files you've changed.  push after
  committing.