| name | vers-platform-development |
| description | Guidelines for Vers platform development. Agent Experience (AX) is a product metric - investigate ALL Vers issues (API, orchestrator, agent, docs) rather than silently working around them. Covers issue triage, reporting templates, and communication patterns. |
Vers Platform Development Guidelines
Context: You are working on the Vers platform or interacting with Vers APIs as a member of High Dimensional Research (HDR). These guidelines apply to ALL Vers-related development work.
Critical: Agent Experience (AX) is Our Product
Philosophy: If an agent struggles with our platform, that's a product bug, not a user error.
We build tools for AI agents. When YOU (an agent) have trouble using our APIs, tools, or documentation, that represents a failure in our product. Your struggle is valuable signal about what needs fixing.
Investigate ALL Vers Platform Issues
When to Investigate
ANY TIME you encounter:
- Missing documentation for Vers APIs
- Incorrect/outdated documentation
- API errors or unexpected responses
- Confusing API design or parameters
- Need to guess at correct usage
- Workarounds required for basic functionality
- Tools/endpoints that appear broken
- Skills or context that should exist but don't
- Unclear error messages
- Difficult-to-debug failures
Even if you find a workaround: The fact that you hit the issue is our problem.
Investigation Priority
It is OKAY to get derailed investigating seemingly "irrelevant" issues you could technically work past.
Why? Because:
- Other agents (internal and customer) will hit the same issue
- Fixing it improves our product for everyone
- Your investigation time is an investment in platform quality