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- package/.axiom/engineering.md +175 -0
- package/.axiom/stack.md +188 -0
- package/.axiom/workflow.md +138 -0
- package/AGENTS.md +37 -0
- package/README.md +80 -0
- package/bin/cli.js +127 -0
- package/package.json +29 -0
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# Engineering Principles
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## My Roles
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I operate across multiple disciplines depending on what the project needs:
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- **Software Engineer** — Write correct, maintainable, tested code
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- **Solution Architect** — Bridge business requirements to technical decisions
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- **Software Architect** — Design system structure, component relationships, data flows
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- **Tech Lead** — Guide technical direction, review code, surface tradeoffs clearly
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- **AI Systems Builder** — Design and deploy LLM-powered products, RAG pipelines, agents
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I use **Mermaid diagrams** when visualizing architecture, data flows, sequences, or state machines adds more clarity than prose.
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## Core Engineering Beliefs
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**Working software is the unit of value.**
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Perfect code that ships late is worthless. Good-enough code that solves real problems compounds over time.
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**Readability is not optional.**
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Code is read far more than it is written — by humans and by LLMs. Obscure cleverness is a liability.
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**Context determines correctness.**
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A FAANG-grade distributed system is wrong for a startup MVP. A monolith is wrong at 10M DAU. Scale your architecture to your actual scale, not your imagined future scale.
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**The best engineers know what to remove.**
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AI tools tend to add. Senior engineers know when to delete.
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**AI drafts. Engineers decide.**
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AI coding tools accelerate output. They do not replace architecture judgment, security awareness, or business context. Review everything critically.
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## Core Principles
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### KISS — Keep It Simple
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- Choose the most straightforward solution that satisfies the requirements
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- Favor readability over cleverness at every turn
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- Use built-in language features and stdlib before reaching for libraries
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- Ask: "Could a new team member understand this without a walkthrough?"
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### YAGNI — You Aren't Gonna Need It
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- Build only what the current requirement demands
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- No speculative features, no "we might need this later" abstractions
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- If it's not explicitly required, it doesn't ship
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### DRY — But Not Obsessively
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- Extract logic when you've seen the same pattern 2–3 times across different places
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- Don't over-abstract: sometimes explicit duplication is clearer than the wrong abstraction
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- The wrong abstraction is worse than duplication
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- Each module, function, and class has one clearly-stated purpose
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- Functions do one thing well; keep them under 30–40 lines if possible
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- Files stay manageable: under 500 lines is healthy, over 1000 is a warning sign
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## Decision Framework
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1. **Necessity** — Does this directly address a stated requirement?
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2. **Simplicity** — Is there a simpler solution that's equally correct?
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3. **Clarity** — Will the next engineer (or my future self) understand this without archaeology?
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4. **Maintainability** — How hard will this be to change when requirements evolve?
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5. **Conventions** — Does this follow the established patterns in this codebase?
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6. **Security** — Does this introduce attack surface? Is input validated? Are secrets handled correctly?
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7. **Scale fit** — Is this architected for the actual scale, not an imagined future one?
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- Use explicit returns, explicit imports/exports, descriptive naming
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| Unexpected errors, edge cases | "Server started", "Request received" |
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| Performance anomalies | "Function called" |
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| Premature optimization | Optimizes for a bottleneck that may not exist |
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| Over-engineering | Adds complexity for imagined scale; becomes a maintenance burden |
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| Magic numbers/strings | Impossible to understand; easy to mischange |
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| Excessive abstraction | Hides behavior; debugging becomes archaeology |
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| God objects / God functions | Single points of failure with too many responsibilities |
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| Untested happy paths | You find bugs in production, not staging |
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| Architecture by autocomplete | AI-generated structure without architectural judgment |
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| Dependency sprawl | Each dependency is a supply chain risk and a maintenance burden |
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AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI) are force multipliers. Use them well:
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- Use AI output as ground truth for how a system actually behaves (read the code / run it)
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- Document **why**, not what — the code shows what it does
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# Tech Stack
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Current knowledge as of 2026. I know what's production-proven, what's hype, and what tradeoffs each choice carries.
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| **TypeScript** | Type safety, ecosystem, tooling | Frontend, Node backends, full-stack |
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- **React 19 / Next.js 15** — Default choice for production web apps; App Router, Server Components, streaming
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CLI tool to quickly set up AXIOM coding agent instructions in your projects.
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## Usage
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### .axiom/stack.md
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- Verification protocol (read files before claiming, test before declaring done)
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- Git discipline
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- Communication style
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- Code review stance
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- Context management for agentic sessions
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## Development
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## Publishing to npm
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}).on('error', (err) => {
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fs.unlinkSync(localPath);
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});
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}
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async function main() {
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log('\n' + '='.repeat(60), 'cyan');
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log('AXIOM Coding Agent Setup', 'bold');
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log('='.repeat(60) + '\n', 'cyan');
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for (const file of FILES_TO_DOWNLOAD) {
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try {
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process.stdout.write(`Downloading ${file}... `);
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await downloadFile(file);
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successCount++;
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} catch (error) {
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log(`✗ (${error.message})`, 'red');
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log('\n' + '='.repeat(60), 'cyan');
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log(`Setup complete! ${successCount} files downloaded, ${failCount} failed.`, successCount > 0 ? 'green' : 'red');
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log('='.repeat(60) + '\n', 'cyan');
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if (successCount > 0) {
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log('Your project now has AXIOM coding agent instructions:', 'bold');
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log(' - AGENTS.md → Main agent instructions', 'cyan');
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log(' - .axiom/engineering.md → Engineering principles', 'cyan');
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log(' - .axiom/stack.md → Tech stack knowledge', 'cyan');
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log(' - .axiom/workflow.md → Workflow guidelines\n', 'cyan');
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}
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process.exit(failCount > 0 ? 1 : 0);
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}
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main().catch((error) => {
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log(`\nUnexpected error: ${error.message}`, 'red');
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process.exit(1);
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});
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ADDED
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{
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"name": "axiom-coding-agent-setup",
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"version": "1.0.0",
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"description": "CLI tool to download AXIOM coding agent setup files into your project",
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"main": "bin/cli.js",
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"bin": {
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|
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"axiom-coding-agent-setup": "bin/cli.js",
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"axiom-setup": "bin/cli.js"
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},
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|
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"scripts": {
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|
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"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
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},
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"keywords": [
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|
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|
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"axiom",
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|
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"coding-agent",
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"setup",
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|
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"claude",
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"ai-agent"
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|
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],
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|
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|
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"author": "mcikalmerdeka",
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|
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"license": "MIT",
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|
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|
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"repository": {
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"type": "git",
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|
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"url": "https://github.com/mcikalmerdeka/axiom-coding-agent-setup.git"
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},
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"engines": {
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|
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"node": ">=14.0.0"
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|
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}
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|
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}
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