TASK002 - Consolidate Authoring Guidelines

Status: Completed Added: 2025-10-08 Updated: 2025-10-08

Original Request

Create a Memory Bank entry consolidating guidelines for prompts, instructions, and agent instructions, sourcing best practices from existing thoughts and instruction files.

Thought Process

Identified need for single canonical reference to reduce fragmentation and improve review efficiency. Pulled structural, clarity, and iterative improvement insights from experimental workflow thought document and external prompt template reference.

Implementation Plan

  • Enumerate _thoughts and instruction sources
  • Extract core principles (structure, metadata, applyTo usage, security, review checks)
  • Draft unified guidelines with tables & checklists
  • Add future enhancement roadmap & maintenance policy
  • Create Memory Bank entry & task record

Progress Tracking

Overall Status: Completed - 100%

Subtasks

| ID | Description | Status | Updated | Notes | |—-|————-|——–|———|——-| | 2.1 | Inventory source files | Complete | 2025-10-08 | Thoughts + instructions enumerated | | 2.2 | Synthesize principles | Complete | 2025-10-08 | Incorporated external + internal sources | | 2.3 | Draft guidelines file | Complete | 2025-10-08 | authoring-guidelines.md created | | 2.4 | Create task record | Complete | 2025-10-08 | This file | | 2.5 | Update task index | Complete | 2025-10-08 | Added to _index.md |

Progress Log

2025-10-08

  • Collected source materials
  • Authored consolidated guideline file with 15 structured sections
  • Added future enhancements list (linting, dead pattern detection, CI validation)
  • Marked task complete and updated index

Completion Rationale

All requested guideline domains (prompts, instructions, agent instructions) unified; provides actionable review & authoring checklists; references sources for traceability.