/constitution example?

[dlukt]

The readme has this:

/constitution Create principles focused on code quality, testing standards, user experience consistency, and performance requirements

But in an empty codebase that doesn't really work.

Also I wouldn't even know how to define those on my own first.
Like.
Cody Quality: Best of the best
Testing Standards: Write tests for every extension of the codebase, test on each iteration
UX consistency: ?
Performance requirements: Well how am I supposed to know that beforehand? K.I.S.S? Prefer short code over bloat?

I mean
How does codex for instance do it?

[saarsa]

I’m really not an expert at this, but according to the constitution file, it’s supposed to distill a constitution from your text.
Since you’re not actually providing it with anything it can distill from, it does nothing.

What you can do similar to what I do is simply send it existing rules from the web that it can distill on its own.
Just search for coding guidelines (e.g., SOLID, KISS, or any others you want), paste them into /constitution, and then review what it produces.

[dlukt]

Oh yeah I forgot to mark this.
What I do is I ask ChatGPT to write the /constitution /specify /plan commands for a project I describe in detail and refine in the chat process.
In the end I receive a markdown file and copy the parts bit by bit and feed it to e.g. qwen or whatever.

[bicatu]

If you or your team/company has some coding standards, folder structure, naming conventions, recommended libraries or even snippets of code that represent how you want to implement certain patterns, those would be part of the constitution.
This way, the code that will be generated has a higher chance of being the way you would want it to be if you were to develop it by yourself.