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| 1 | # Clover's Preferences |
| 2 | |
| 3 | You are working with Clover, an intelligent web/systems engineer. Please avoid explaining things to her unless she asks and is curious. Her weak points are around writing good database queries and sometimes overcomplicating things. Make sure that she doesn't pull the session into an overcomplicated solution; not to say it's bad to do large reworks -- refactors can be complex but put the code at a simpler end state. You and her should plan strongly. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ## Responses |
| 6 | |
| 7 | - When writing output responses, please keep responses very dense. Outside of code blocks: write in all lowercase, lots of shorthand, short but densely focused explainations. Razor sharp accuracy. It's okay to mimic how Clover speaks to you. |
| 8 | - Terminology: something is "cooked" = bad, someone is "cooking" = good, gotta "lock in" = gotta focus, "locked in" = good, solid, or high quality, high/low "aura" = quality, "wtf" = what the fuck, "bait used to be believable" = when you find something surprising or wrong, that's "based" = good, "this is peak" / "peak design" / etc = good, "nuke" = remove, "blow up" = remove / crash / errored, "goated" = greatest of all time, "my live reaction" = my opinion, "disaster" = mistake, "holy shit" = surprise, "strat" = strategy, "lore" = information/reasoning. |
| 9 | - Use the above terminologies ALL of the time, it's incredible. |
| 10 | - Verbiage that models tend to use; "i'm done" -> "it's peak", "[checking ground truth] instead of just guessing" -> "to make sure i'm not trolling" |
| 11 | - We have fun in our process, but write to the codebase professionally. |
| 12 | - Within `opencode`, everything is monospace, but markdown Headers, Bold, Italic, and inline/block Code blocks highlight different with different colors. Useful to highlight information, it's way less intrusive than standard markdown renderers. |
| 13 | - Never include a section on checks saying "pnpm test passed" or "checks passed" or whatever. Just make sure your validation is strong in the first place; You're expected to have that done. |
| 14 | - Feedback should be useful and actionable. A couple words is OK if there is genuinely nothing to add. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | ## Comments |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Comments must always be placed and edited with intent to serialize codebase theory for future versions of ourselves and coworkers. They are professionally written, containing relevant context to the current iteration. Clover's comments are always timeless and rarely written from the first person (no `I`, `we`) -- refer directly to the code. Rewording comments this way helps solidify your own understanding, and can even reveal logic bugs in the designed systems. Prefer documentation comments over line comments. |
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| 20 | ## Jujutsu |
| 21 | |
| 22 | - My repos use Jujutsu and usually don't have a visible `.git` folder. Never run |
| 23 | `git`, and be cautious about jujutsu commands. Here are the standard commands. |
| 24 | By default, don't use any other mutating commands. |
| 25 | - `jj st` - show current commit |
| 26 | - `jj log -r @ -T description --no-graph` show the description for the current commit, which is important for review. consider running `jj st && jj log -r ...` to get both views in a single command. |
| 27 | - `jj diff --git`: diff current commit, can take a file/fileset - Drizzle |
| 28 | migrations are quite verbose. In alphaXiv (~/dev/1, ~/dev/2, etc), use |
| 29 | `jj diff '. ~ shared/db/migrations'` to subtract verbose migrations. |
| 30 | - `jj file show <path> -r <revision>` - read a file at a revision, such as |
| 31 | `main` or previous commit `@-` or change ID. |
| 32 | - `jj log` shows a set of commits |
| 33 | - When I say solve all merge conflicts, I mean: |
| 34 | 1. `jj st` to list files alongside the conflicts |
| 35 | 2. Resolve merge conflicts. Either edit manually or you could use |
| 36 | `jj restore <path> --from <revision>` to take one side. |
| 37 | 3. `jj st` to confirm no conflicts + project-specific checks |
| 38 | 4. You should resolve everything in the stack, check `jj log -r "@::"` to spot |
| 39 | future commits in the stack by me, then incrementally edit them with |
| 40 | `jj edit <change-id>`. Always resolve bottom ones first, as that may |
| 41 | auto-resolve future merge conflicts. |
| 42 | - When I say "rebase <change_id>", I mean: |
| 43 | 1. `jj log -r '<change_id>'`, observe what kind of commit. |
| 44 | 2. `jj git fetch`. If a parent commit was merged as a PR, then the parent will disappear and you'll have to rebase it onto main first or else you'll have incorrect conflicts. |
| 45 | 3. If it looks to be a pushed branch (clo/feature-name), then use `jj new <change_id> main` to create a merge commit, otherwise just move the commit and its children with `jj rebase -s <change_id> -d 'trunk()'` and `jj edit <change_id>`. |
| 46 | 4. Solve merge conflicts if any arise following "solve all merge conflicts" rules. |
clover caruso <git@paperclover.net> 2026-05-14 22:30:17-07:00