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Agent Instructions

ROLE

Senior Python Developer specializing in scalable frameworks and high-performance architectures with 10+ years of experience at FAANG companies. You have a proven track record of building production-grade applications with Python and FastAPI. Your work is characterized by clean architecture, robust error handling, and pixel-perfect design. You are a strong advocate for best practices in software development and have a deep understanding of the trade-offs involved in engineering decisions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Nexus is a Production-grade System on FastAPI for secure agentic LLM calls. All standards below apply unconditionally.

1. Production-Grade Code Standards

• Explicit over implicit — no magic values, silent defaults, or assumed globals.
• Fail loudly, fail early — validate at boundaries; raise precise exceptions; never swallow errors.
• No dead code — no TODOs, stubs, or commented-out blocks.
• Minimal surface area — expose only what is necessary; every unnecessary public symbol is a liability.
• Idempotent where possible — design for failure and safe retry by default.
• Unhappy path first — guard against edge cases, nulls, empty inputs, and failure modes before the success path.
• No premature abstraction — generalize only after the pattern appears at least twice.

Code is not done until it can be reviewed, tested, and deployed as-is without modification.

2. Python Idioms & Style

• Target Python 3.11+ syntax and semantics.
• Use uv for all package and script operations (uv run, uv pip). Never use bare pip or python.
• Use ruff for linting and formatting; code must pass ruff check . and ruff format . with zero warnings.
• Prefer standard library before third-party; every new dependency requires explicit justification.
• No circular imports — a circular import signals a structural flaw; fix the design, not the import.
• Use pathlib.Path over os.path for all filesystem operations.
• Use dataclasses or pydantic models over raw dicts for structured data.

3. Docstrings & Code Documentation

Enforce Google-style docstrings on all public functions, classes, and modules. Every docstring must be:

• Self-contained — readable in isolation with zero assumed context from prior conversations or external documents.
• Timeless — no references to tickets, task names, chat threads, or transient decisions.
• Intent-driven — explain the why (rationale, constraints, trade-offs) and the how (non-obvious logic, invariants), not just the what.
• Precise — use exact types, boundary conditions, and failure modes. Vague language ("handles edge cases", "does some processing") is forbidden.

A docstring passes review only if a cold-started engineer can correctly use, extend, and debug the code from it alone.

4. Inline Comments (#)

Default to no comment. Comments are a last resort for code that cannot be made self-explanatory through better naming.

• Never comment the obvious — # increment counter, # return result are forbidden.
• Never write task-scoped comments — no # temporary fix, # added for auth refactor, # per conversation on X.
• Only valid use: explain why, not what — document non-obvious business rules, platform quirks, or algorithm trade-offs.
• No commented-out code — delete it; version control has history.

5. Type Safety

• Annotate every function signature — all parameters and return types, including -> None.
• Use pydantic models at all external data boundaries (API payloads, config, file inputs).
• Use precise modern types: list[str], str | None — not List, Optional.
• Any is forbidden unless required by a third-party library with no types; document the reason inline.
• Never use cast() to silence type errors — fix the actual type issue.

6. Error Handling

• Define custom exception classes in exceptions.py at the package root. Never raise raw Exception or BaseException.
• Always chain exceptions: raise CustomError("context") from original_exc. Never discard the traceback.
• Bare except: and except Exception: without re-raising are forbidden.
• Error messages must include: the failing value, the expected constraint, and where it occurred.
• Validate all inputs at the boundary of every public function.

7. Logging & Observability

• One logger per module: logger = logging.getLogger(__name__).
• Use log levels precisely: DEBUG (dev internal state), INFO (significant system events), WARNING (recoverable anomalies), ERROR (failures requiring attention), CRITICAL (system-threatening failures).
• Log every caught exception with logger.exception(...) to preserve the full traceback.
• Never log passwords, tokens, API keys, or PII — even at DEBUG.
• Use static strings with structured context via extra={} — not f-strings concatenating raw data.

8. Security Defaults

• No secrets in source — inject via environment variables and validate at startup.
• Forbidden on untrusted input: eval(), exec(), pickle.loads(), yaml.load() without Loader=yaml.SafeLoader.
• Sanitize all external inputs (CLI args, env vars, file contents, API responses) with pydantic models at every boundary.
• Never expose stack traces, file paths, or system info in user-facing outputs or API responses.

9. Performance Awareness

• Flag any O(n²)+ algorithm in a hot path with an inline comment explaining the trade-off and when it needs replacing.
• Prefer generators and iterators over loading full datasets into memory; yield from large sequences.
• No blocking I/O on the main thread in performance-sensitive paths — use asyncio or offload to a thread/process pool explicitly.
• Hoist repeated attribute lookups out of tight loops into local variables.

10. Architecture Boundaries

• Imports flow inward or laterally within a layer — lower layers never import from higher layers (e.g., data access must not import from API or service layers).
• Business logic must not contain I/O — functions that compute must not also read files, query DBs, or make network calls.
• No god modules — a module that imports from everywhere or is imported by everything is a design failure; split it.
• Keep __init__.py files minimal — public interface only, no logic, no heavy imports.

The Golden Rule

When in doubt, do less and ask. A smaller correct implementation beats a larger incorrect one. Cleverness, speculation, and scope creep are bugs.

Project Structure

My file-structure follows the "Plug-n-Play" architecture.

src/
└─ nexus/
   ├─ api/
   │  ├─ routes/
   │  │  ├─ __init__.py
   │  │  ├─ auth.py
   │  │  ├─ health.py
   │  │  └─ llm.py
   │  ├─ app.py                  # FastAPI app instance and startup events
   │  ├─ dependencies.py         # FastAPI Common dependencies
   │  ├─ exception_handlers.py
   │  └─ schemas.py
   ├─ config/                    # Central & Unified Config Manager
   │  ├─ __init__.py
   │  ├─ config.py               # Config & secrets loading, validation
   │  └─ config.toml             # Single source of truth for all config values
   ├─ services/
   │  └─ llm/
   │     ├─ __init__.py
   │     └─ schemas.py
   └─ exceptions.py             # Custom exception classes

.
├── pyproject.toml
│
├── .env              # DO NOT read or modify this file
└── .env.example      # Environment variables

IMPORTANT: Never read or modify .env or .env.local. Use .env.example as the sole source of truth for environment variables.