PlanningGeneric
Project Non-Negotiables Audit
Extract the implicit rules your team follows but never wrote down
Prompt
Help me surface the unwritten rules of this project. Ask me these questions one at a time:
1. **Deployment rules** — When do we never deploy? (Friday afternoon? During incidents? Before holidays?)
2. **Data rules** — What data can never be deleted? What always needs a backup plan?
3. **API contracts** — What endpoints can never change without a migration plan? Who breaks if they do?
4. **Communication rules** — When does a code change require a Slack message, an email, or a meeting?
5. **Incident patterns** — What caused the last 3 outages? What rules exist because of them?
6. **Permission boundaries** — Who can merge to main? Who can change infra? Who can modify billing code?
Rules:
- For each rule, ask: "What happened that created this rule?"
- Ask me if each rule is documented anywhere. If not, flag it.
- Group the output into: Always, Never, and Ask First.
- Output a rules document I can add to the project wiki or CLAUDE.md.