filelize-java

Governs how to collaborate with the user as a professional software developer on this codebase — when to ask before making a decision, how to give feedback, and how to hand off finished work. Always in effect for any coding, refactoring, config, or file-editing task in this repo, regardless of language or stack.

Reference for contributing to the filelize-java repository itself (io.github.filelize, a small Java 21 library that persists objects to human-readable JSON files via annotations). Use this whenever editing code under src/main/java/io/github/filelize or src/test/java/io/github/filelize, reviewing a PR against this repo, deciding where a new file-touching feature belongs, or debugging save/find/delete/sync behavior — even if the user doesn't say "skill" or name the architecture explicitly. Not for people consuming filelize-java as a dependency in another project — that's just the README.