feat: Complete AI-First Principles System (All 55 Principles)

[michaeljabbour]

Summary

Complete implementation of the AI-First Principles Knowledge Synthesis System with ALL 55 principles and full tooling support.

What's Included

✅ All 55 AI-First Principles

• People (1-6): Small working groups, human touchpoints, prompt engineering, test verification, conversation-driven dev, escape hatches
• Process (7-19): Regenerate don't edit, contract-first, tests as quality gate, git-based everything, continuous validation, incremental processing
• Technology (20-37): Self-modifying codebase, CLI-first design, idempotency by design, stateless components, observability, error recovery
• Governance (38-44): Access control, metrics everywhere, knowledge stewardship, adaptive sandboxing, data governance, model lifecycle
• Extended Technology (45-52): Prompt design patterns, context window management, few-shot learning, chain-of-thought, tool use, RAG, agent memory, multi-agent orchestration
• Extended Process (53-55): Prompt iteration workflows, context curation pipelines, evaluation & testing frameworks

🛠️ Core Components

Python Modules (amplifier/principles/)

• loader.py - Load and parse all 55 principles from markdown
• searcher.py - Advanced search with relationship mapping and clustering
• synthesizer.py - Task-specific synthesis and implementation roadmaps
• knowledge_extractor.py - Deep knowledge extraction from principles
• builder.py - Tool for creating and validating new principles

Knowledge System (amplifier/knowledge/)

• loader.py - Load extracted knowledge from storage
• manager.py - Singleton manager for global access
• Data: 455+ concepts, 4 patterns, 493 nodes, 814 edges

CLI Commands

# Main entry point
amplifier-principles

# Principle commands
amplifier-principles principles list [--format simple|detailed|json]
amplifier-principles principles search "keyword"
amplifier-principles principles show NUMBER
amplifier-principles principles synthesize "task description"
amplifier-principles principles roadmap 1 2 3
amplifier-principles principles coverage 1 2 3
amplifier-principles principles extract-knowledge

# Knowledge commands  
amplifier-principles knowledge status
amplifier-principles knowledge search "concept"
amplifier-principles knowledge patterns
amplifier-principles knowledge insights
amplifier-principles knowledge recommend "context"

# Builder commands
amplifier-principles principles builder validate NUMBER
amplifier-principles principles builder check-quality NUMBER
amplifier-principles principles builder list-incomplete

📚 Documentation

• ai-first-principles/README.md - Complete index of all 55 principles
• ai-first-principles/TEMPLATE.md - Template for creating new principles
• ai-first-principles/CONTRIBUTORS.md - Contribution guide with quality standards
• ai-first-principles/tools/principle_builder.py - CLI builder tool
• ai-first-principles/tools/README.md - Builder tool documentation
• docs/principles-integration.md - Integration guide
• docs/knowledge-synthesis-summary.md - Knowledge extraction results
• docs/knowledge-system-guide.md - Usage guide

🧪 Testing

• tests/test_principles.py - Comprehensive test suite
• All tests passing
• Validates loading, searching, synthesis, and knowledge extraction

📊 Knowledge Statistics

• Concepts: 455 unique concepts extracted
• Patterns: 4 major patterns identified
• Insights: Strategic insights generated
• Knowledge Graph: 493 nodes with 814 relationships
• Top Concepts: reasoning (340), evaluation (188), retrieval (176), validation (172), iteration (160)

Key Improvements from Original PR

1. Complete Set: All 55 principles included (original PR only had 45-55)
2. Original Content: Used git history to restore your original principle specifications
3. Builder Tool: Included the principle_builder.py CLI tool
4. Full Documentation: Complete README with all principles indexed
5. Knowledge System: Fully functional knowledge extraction and synthesis

Installation & Usage

# Install
make install

# Run CLI
amplifier-principles principles list

# Python API
from amplifier.principles import PrincipleLoader, PrincipleSearcher, PrincipleSynthesizer
loader = PrincipleLoader()
principles = loader.get_all_principles()  # Returns all 55

Files Changed

• 50 files added/modified
• ~30,000 lines of code and documentation
• All 55 principle specifications in markdown
• Complete Python implementation
• Comprehensive CLI integration

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Co-Authored-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com