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@@ -33,6 +33,87 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
 -   **Python**: Use `pre-commit run black --files <file.py>` to format Python
     files.
 
+## Comments
+
+-   **Describe the code that is there.** A comment should explain what the
+    current code does or why it is the way it is, not narrate what the code used
+    to be. Do not add a comment to justify a deletion or explain that something
+    is no longer necessary; a reader of the new code has no idea what is being
+    contrasted against, and the comment rots as soon as the old shape is
+    forgotten. Put that reasoning in the commit message instead.
+-   **Do not introduce a local variable just to host a comment.** If a call
+    argument reads clearly on its own, inline it rather than naming it so that a
+    comment has somewhere to attach.
+-   **Lead with a plain summary.** Start a doc comment with a direct statement
+    of what the function does or returns, such as "Returns true if the InstKind
+    is a singleton." Put nuance in a following sentence rather than qualifying
+    the summary into something harder to read.
+-   **Re-read a comment before updating it.** When a symbol is renamed or
+    changes meaning, a comment that mentions it is not automatically stale. Work
+    out what the comment actually asserts first: it may be describing what the
+    code _uses_, which is still true, and rewriting it loses information.
+
+## Documentation
+
+This covers standalone prose: `/docs`, `README.md` files, and the skill files
+under `.agents/skills`.
+
+-   **Be true of the tree it lands in.** Documentation shipping in the same
+    commit as the code it describes should name that code freely. Documentation
+    that lands separately must not: a reader who greps for an identifier from an
+    unlanded change finds nothing, and a claim that only holds after that change
+    is false until it lands. This is easy to get wrong when writing up a lesson
+    while the change that taught it is still in flight.
+-   **Use placeholders for illustrations.** When an example only needs to show a
+    shape, name it `Foo` rather than reaching for a real symbol. Save real
+    identifiers for documenting that identifier, where going stale is at least
+    detectable.
+-   **Make each point stand alone.** A reader has none of the discussion that
+    produced it. State the rule, and enough of the reason to apply it, without
+    assuming knowledge of the change that motivated it.
+
+## Naming
+
+-   **A name is a claim, so keep it true.** When a change invalidates the
+    invariant a name describes, rename it in the same change. A factory called
+    `MakeSingletonFooId` has to be renamed once `Foo` is no longer a singleton,
+    even though nothing forces you to.
+-   **Types in a signature are part of the claim.** A function returning the id
+    of a namespace should return `InstId`, not `TypeInstId`, because a namespace
+    is not a type. Do not let a convenient wider or narrower id type imply
+    something false.
+-   **Delete a predicate whose name stops distinguishing anything.** If a change
+    widens a test so that it no longer says what its name implies, remove it and
+    let callers use the underlying test, rather than keeping a wrapper that
+    sounds meaningful. What callers actually want is often the inverse, and is
+    worth adding under its own name.
+-   **Name a variable for its role, not its representation.** If the role a
+    value plays is unchanged, keep its name even when a change means it is now
+    held or spelled differently.
+
+## Commit descriptions
+
+-   **Say what the change is, not how you made it.** Describe the resulting
+    code. Only describe process when the process is more interesting than the
+    change, as with a large mechanical transformation.
+-   **Do not narrate your own work.** Statements like "each such site was
+    audited" or "we investigated every caller" describe effort, not the change.
+-   **Omit routine mechanical steps.** Do not mention running the testdata
+    autoupdater or the formatter. Every change is expected to include those.
+-   **Do not enumerate each edit.** Describe the change as a whole rather than
+    listing every function or file touched; the diff already lists them.
+-   **Use the project's terms precisely.** Reach for the term of art the
+    codebase uses. Calling something a "type alias" or a "namespace" when it is
+    a named scope misleads, and is worse than a vaguer but accurate word.
+-   **Scope claims to what changed.** Say the specific thing that is now true,
+    rather than a broader statement that happens to contain it.
+
+## Design
+
+-   **Do not distort the data model to improve output.** If printed or golden
+    output is undesirable, change the printer, not the data structures that
+    feed it.
+
 ## Style Guides
 
 -   **C++ style**: Follow the