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What to expose in settings surfaces and how to organize it. Invoke before exposing a setting, organizing a page, or reworking a settings surface.
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Testing posture — test behavior not implementation, stay sober, grow coverage per workstream. Invoke before writing a test or extending coverage.
One normalized way to name files, folders, symbols, resources and providers. Invoke before naming or renaming.
How to write the JOURNAL.md. Invoke when recording a finding, or a small decision worth keeping.
What to observe in code, and how to write it readable and actionable. Invoke before adding or changing an observation point.
How versions are numbered and the changelog written. Invoke before cutting a version, writing a CHANGELOG entry, or drafting release notes.
Commit grain and the few deviations from the universal convention. Invoke before committing, splitting a workstream into commits, or auditing history.
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| description | What to expose in settings surfaces and how to organize it. Invoke before exposing a setting, organizing a page, or reworking a settings surface. |
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Build a settings surface on transferable good practice — what to expose, how to organize it, and which control fits each kind of setting.
Every exposed setting is a debt — findability, testing, a real fix postponed — so each earns its place against a default that just works. If a value can be decided for the user, decide it. Exposing depth is legitimate when the audience wants it, but the cost is paid by good defaults and discoverability — grouping, search, a modified-only view — never by hiding what the user came for.
Two levels maximum to reach a setting: a top grouping, then an in-page fold for the less frequent. A third means rework, not more depth — and folds never nest. Organize by module rather than by loosely-related theme. A setting that does not apply in the current state is hidden, not greyed; greying is only a transient "busy" signal while an action runs, never a substitute for hiding.
A change applies at once, with a reset to its default rather than an OK to confirm — the default has one source, and the reset appears on hover, only once the value has changed, at three levels: the value, its group, the whole surface. Two changes break the rule: one hard to undo is held until confirmed, not applied then reversed; one merely expensive to apply — it relaunches a measure, reloads a model — waits for release instead of firing on every step.
Confirmation is set by how reversible an action is, never by where the setting sits. And when a setting must warn, it speaks through one inline channel whose wording carries the tone — no ladder of severities.
First sort what you're looking at: a persistent setting, a command (an immediate action — a button or menu, not the list), or a diagnostic (consulted, not configured). Then a setting's value-nature picks its control — see the control catalogue in references/controls-and-behaviour.md for the full mapping and the finer kinds. The one worth stating here: a numeric magnitude is always one control — a slider to drag and a number field for the exact value — sized by a chosen fineness, not by hand-numbered increments.
For two similar options, say what each does (its effect), not what it is (its mechanism).
