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Scaffold a project
An opinionated starting point with config, tests and a README that works.
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The kind of thing, and any choice already made.
What the starting point needs.
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Scaffold this project. [your what you are building] Include: tests, lint, ci It must RUN. Install, start, and hit it before delivering. A scaffold that has never been executed is a folder of plausible files, and every hour someone spends fixing it is worse than starting from nothing. One working example of each thing rather than an empty structure. One real endpoint, one real test, one real config value read from the environment. Empty folders named `services/` teach nobody anything. Write the README as the commands to run, in order, with what each does. Start with the one that proves it works. Pin the versions. An unpinned scaffold works today and not next month.
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Why this works
A scaffold that has never been executed is a folder of plausible files, and every hour spent fixing it is worse than starting from nothing. This installs, starts and hits the thing before handing it over, ships one working example of each piece rather than empty folders, and pins the versions.