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Apply the Cratis C# house conventions when writing or reviewing C# in a Cratis repository - formatting, naming, records and primary constructors, nullable handling, XML documentation, custom exceptions, structured logging, dependency injection, and service lifetimes. Use for any "how should this be written" C# style question; defer product API decisions and specification authoring to their focused workflows.

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# Cratis C# engineering conventions

These are the house conventions Cratis maintainers apply across every
repository. They are **conventions**, not framework contracts: nothing here is
enforced by an analyzer unless this skill says so. Follow them for consistency;
do not claim the framework requires them.

## Verified product sources

| Package | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `Cratis.Fundamentals` | DI lifetime attributes and `IInstancesOf<T>` instance resolution |

## Route near misses

- The question is what a Cratis product API *does*: resolve it against the
  owning product repository, not against this style guide.
- The subject is a specification file: the specification conventions own the
  `Establish`/`Because`/`should_` pattern and the `for_`/`when_` hierarchy.
- The subject is TypeScript or React: this skill covers C# only.
- The subject is repository structure or documentation: those are separate
  workflows.

## Quick reference

- Use current C# language features — records, primary constructors, pattern
  matching, collection expressions.
- `var` over an explicit type; the right-hand side already names the type.
- File-scoped namespace declarations.
…

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