---
description: "<When the agent should use this rule, in the words of the task: for example, adding or changing an API endpoint>"
alwaysApply: false
---

# `<Area this rule covers, for example: API endpoints>`

- `<One convention the agent keeps getting wrong, stated as an instruction: for example, validate every request body at the handler before calling a service>`
- `<Another, only if it is real: for example, return errors as an object with a code and a message, never a bare string>`
- Follow the existing example in @<file that already does it right, for example service-template.ts> rather than inventing a new pattern.

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