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name: constitution-creation

description: Establish project governing principles including dev guidelines, code quality standards, testing policies, UX requirements, performance benchmarks, and security constraints.

allowed-tools: Read, Bash, Grep, Glob, WebFetch, WebSearch, Agent, AskUserQuestion

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- domains: [domain:software-engineering]

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- # Constitution Creation

- ## Overview

- Establish the project constitution -- the governing document that defines development principles, quality standards, and constraints for all subsequent specification and implementation work.

- ## When to Use

- - Starting a new project that needs governance foundations

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+ domains: [domain:software-engineering]

+ skillAreas: [skill-area:agentic-loops, skill-area:orchestration-loop]

+ workflows: [workflow:feature-development]

+ topics: [topic:developer-experience]

+ roles: [role:tech-lead, role:backend-engineer]

- Formalizing existing project standards into a constitution

- Updating governance principles for an evolving project

- Before writing specifications for a new feature area

## Distinction from Specification

- **Constitution**: Defines project-wide governance (HOW the project operates)

- **Specification**: Defines feature-level requirements (WHAT to build)

## Process

1. **Gather context** - Assess project type, audience, compliance needs, existing standards

2. **Define dev guidelines** - Coding standards, branching strategy, review process

3. **Set code quality standards** - Linting, formatting, complexity limits, naming conventions

4. **Establish testing policies** - Coverage thresholds, test types, CI requirements

5. **Specify UX requirements** - Accessibility, responsiveness, performance budgets

6. **Define performance benchmarks** - Load times, throughput, memory limits

7. **Establish security constraints** - Auth, data handling, vulnerability policies

8. **Document architecture principles** - Modularity, dependencies, extensibility

9. **Human review** - Approve constitution before proceeding

## Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: `methodologies/spec-kit/spec-kit-specification` (constitution phase)

Full pipeline: `methodologies/spec-kit/spec-kit-orchestrator`