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+# AGENTS
+
+Contributor and coding-agent guide for this repository.
+
+## Scope
+
+This repository is a template. Every change lands in every project generated from it, so prefer the
+narrower change and leave project-specific decisions to the generated repository.
+
+Documentation is split by what it serves:
+
+- `README.md`: the entry point. What the template provides, and how to instantiate it.
+- `docs/development.md`: the workflow reference. Sanitizers, presets, the lock file, formatting and
+  linting, coverage, documentation, build policy, and IDE setup.
+- `SECURITY.md`: the vulnerability reporting process.
+- `AGENTS.md`: the contributor process the user docs do not need.
+
+Do not restate `docs/development.md` here. Link to the section instead.
+
+## Commands
+
+`make help` lists every target. The `Makefile` is the human entry point; `CMakePresets.json` is the
+public build interface, and the workflow presets are what CI runs.
+
+- `make debug` and `make release` build and test through the matching workflow preset.
+- `make sanitize`, `make sanitize-asan`, and `make sanitize-ubsan` build instrumented trees.
+- `make coverage` and `make coverage-report`, which enforces a line floor of `COVERAGE_FAIL_UNDER`,
+  100 by default.
+- `make lint` runs clang-tidy, cmake-lint, ruff, and markdownlint. `make format` rewrites in place
+  and `make format-check` fails instead.
+- `make lock` regenerates `conan.lock`; `make lock-check` is the CI guard.
+- `make docs` generates the Doxygen HTML.
+
+Run `make format`, then the workflow preset matching the change, then `make lint` before commit.
+`make bootstrap` installs Conan dependencies for debug and release; sanitizer trees need
+`make bootstrap-sanitize` first.
+
+## Build Policy
+
+The defaults differ from a stock CMake project, and the differences are deliberate. Read
+[Build policy](docs/development.md#build-policy) before changing a flag.
+
+- Warnings are errors in every preset. Fix the warning; do not configure with
+  `-DWARNINGS_AS_ERRORS=OFF` to get a build through.
+- Hardening and, for `release` only, link-time optimization are on by default. Both cover
+  first-party targets alone, because dependency binaries come from the Conan cache and are not
+  rebuilt. Do not describe either as a process-wide guarantee.
+- Sanitizer and coverage builds omit fortification on purpose. Fortify conflicts with the ASan
+  interceptors, and coverage builds run at `-O0` where glibc fortification warns.
+- The template does not replace the system allocator, and the reasons are recorded under
+  [Allocators](docs/development.md#allocators). Adding one is a measured decision for a generated
+  project, not a template change.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+Update in this order: edit the pins in `conanfile.py`, run `make lock`, run the workflow that
+covers the change, then commit `conanfile.py` and `conan.lock` together. A lock regenerated without
+a pin change is a no-op commit; drop it rather than committing churn.
+
+`scripts/check_settings_subset.py` verifies that an installed Conan `settings_user.yml` covers the
+sanitizer values this project needs. It parses only Conan's documented two-level structure and uses
+the standard library alone, because PyYAML is not available everywhere it runs. Unrecognized input
+fails the check and expects a manual merge.
+
+## Template Invariants
+
+- The rename utility is the instantiation path, and the template workflow renames the repository in
+  CI, then builds, tests, and runs the result. A change that adds a file carrying the project name,
+  the namespace, an include path, or a GitHub link must teach the rename utility about it in the
+  same change, or that workflow fails.
+- The rename utility uses only the Python standard library. Keep it that way: it runs before any
+  dependency is installed.
+- C++23 is the language floor (`cxx_std_23`), and the CMake floor is stated at the top of
+  `CMakeLists.txt` with the feature that sets it. Raise either only with the reason recorded there.
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+- `make format && make lint` is clean, and the workflow preset covering the change passes.
+- Coverage stays at the floor. Exclude genuinely unreachable defensive code rather than lowering
+  `COVERAGE_FAIL_UNDER`.
+- Documentation changed in the same commit when the change touches presets, make targets, flags,
+  the rename utility, or the dependency set.
+- Commits follow Conventional Commits, and work reaches `main` through a pull request.
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+# Claude Code
+
+@AGENTS.md