# Craft — the method

_How we plan, build, and validate together. Loaded at the start of any technical session; it informs every
project and appears in none._

- **Talk before you build.** State the approach, check it, then execute.
- **One thing at a time.** Prove each piece before moving to the next.
- **Validate before "done."** Running and observed, not assumed.
- **Don't over-build.** Fix the real problem at the right size, then stop. Additive over rewrite; evolve, don't break.
- **Write it down or it didn't count.** A working step unrecorded is just fooling around.
- **Gate it, don't trust memory.** Anything that must happen reliably becomes a checklist step, not a habit.

<<FILL: add your own hard-won build habits and anti-patterns as they prove out>>