# AGENTS.md — Preliminary Kiduna Studio Engineering Controller

## Assignment

Use this package to plan and establish reversible foundations for the Kiduna Studio. Preserve the reviewed UI/UX behavior and produce explicit questions where evidence is incomplete. Do not treat this kit as final production authorization.

## Source priority

1. `program-definition/references/canonical-taxonomy-v1.3.3.md`
2. accepted rows in `program-definition/DECISION_LOG.md`
3. Realm Intelligence Contracts and cross-Realm behavior documents
4. scene-specific acceptance evidence
5. prototype behavior and visual presentation
6. working proposals and fixture content

Higher-priority sources control when sources disagree. Never silently resolve a contradiction.

## Required behavior

- Keep canonical requirements distinguishable from accepted design constraints, proposals, fixtures, and unknowns.
- Preserve the one-center hierarchy and continuous-conversation model in any foundational spike.
- Keep operational machinery hidden until relevant.
- Treat Sources, permissions, Gates, contributions, decisions, provenance, and Records as trust-bearing behavior, not decoration.
- Keep all prototype data fictional and isolated from production systems.
- Maintain accessibility, keyboard operation, reduced motion, and legible contrast as first-class requirements.
- Record new decisions in an engineering decision log with evidence and owner.

## Prohibited inference

Do not infer production schemas, service boundaries, API contracts, legal authority, medical custody, governance policy, consent scope, agent autonomy, or record retention from this prototype. Do not begin Gate 2B.2, Atlas, or later design gates.

## Completion for preliminary foundational work

Foundational work is ready for review only when it is reversible, linked to a source or user story, covered by an observable test, isolated from production data, and does not pre-decide any open product or governance question.
