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Core PrinciplesCore Principles

Information

Keep these principles and gain the backup, control and support that make them easier to rely on, with Production-Grade.

What Foundry Does

Operator injects goals; Foundry does not define them

Scope cannot be expanded by AI

All tasks require explicit acceptance criteria

No task runs without validation

No refactoring without explicit instruction

State persisted after every step

Ambiguity halts execution (with retry mechanism)

Provider CLIs are worker tools, not decision authority

AUTO MODE is default and mandatory

All outputs are reviewable (diffs, logs)

Anti-Goals (What Foundry Does NOT Do)

Autonomous goal refinement

Speculative task creation

Retry heuristics beyond explicit retry_policy

AI-only validation (deterministic first)

"Helpful" corrections or fallback behaviors

If in doubt → HALT and ask the operator.