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The adopt-and-adapt integration pattern for multi-contributor synthesis-coded projects. Covers the lead synthesist role, quality gates, cherry-pick safety, and graduated integration intensity. Use when asked to: synthesis coding, multi-contributor, integration, cherry-pick, adopt

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Code Integration

When multiple people contribute to a project built through synthesis coding, integration is fundamentally different from a standard open source merge workflow. This skill defines how it works.

The Core Problem

In synthesis coding, the lead developer (the "lead synthesist") builds and evolves the system through continuous, context-rich collaboration with AI. The result is a codebase with:

Deep architectural consistency — decisions compound across sessions
Implicit conventions — not all standards are documented yet because one person held them all in their head
Rapid evolution — the codebase may change substantially between the time an external contributor branches off and the time they submit a PR

When an external contributor forks or branches, they get a snapshot. They build against that snapshot. Meanwhile, the lead may have evolved the architecture, introduced new patterns, improved output quality, or refactored entire subsystems. The contributor's code reflects the old state.

A blind merge risks:

Regression — undoing improvements the lead made after the contributor branched
Inconsistency — introducing patterns that conflict with the codebase's evolved conventions
Security gaps — missing safeguards the lead added (audit logging, rate limiting, input validation)
Quality drift — code that works but does not meet the project's current bar

Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

The lead synthesist does not merge external contributions directly. Instead:

Adopt the intent, the design, and the valuable implementation work
Adapt the code to meet current standards, architecture, and quality bar

This is neither a merge nor a rewrite. It is selective integration with improvement. The contributor's work is the foundation; the lead brings it up to production standard.

Why This Works

Respects the contributor's work. Their design thinking, feature concept, and implementation effort are preserved.
Maintains quality. The lead synthesist is the quality gate. Nothing ships that does not meet the bar.
Avoids regression. By starting from current main and selectively pulling in changes, the lead never risks overwriting recent improvements.
Educates through feedback. The review process teaches contributors the project's standards, making future contributions smoother.

Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

The contributor did not have the latest context. Their code is correct for a codebase that no longer exists in that exact form.
Standards evolve faster than documentation. The lead synthesist holds conventions that are not yet written down.
AI-accelerated development means the codebase moves fast. A branch that is a week old may be dozens of commits behind.

Roles

Lead Synthesist

The person who holds the architectural vision, maintains the quality bar, and has the deepest context on the system.

Responsibilities:

Define and evolve project standards
Review all external contributions
Perform adopt-and-adapt integration
Maintain the canonical repository
Control production deployments
Document standards as they emerge through the integration process

Key principle: The lead synthesist's standards ARE the project's standards. Integration is the forcing function that makes those standards explicit and documented.

Contributors

Developers who build features on branches or forks. They may or may not use synthesis coding themselves.

Responsibilities:

Understand existing standards before building (read the contributor guide)
Submit complete features (both frontend and backend, with tests)
Maintain clean branch hygiene (one feature per branch, meaningful commits)
Respond to review feedback and iterate

Contribution Workflow

Before Building

Read the project's contributor guide. Every synthesis-coded project with external contributors should maintain one.
Sync to latest main. Do not build on stale code.
Discuss the approach for significant features. Especially anything touching auth, security, the data model, or user-facing architecture.

While Building

One feature per branch. Never bundle unrelated work.
Complete features only. Backend + frontend + tests = complete.
Follow existing patterns. Before creating a new component, search the codebase for similar ones.
Meaningful commits. Use conventional commit format (feat:, fix:, docs:, test:, chore:).

Submitting

Rebase onto latest main. Minimize divergence.
Clean diff. No debugging artifacts, no commented-out experiments, no unrelated changes.
Share early if uncertain. A draft PR with a question is better than a finished PR that needs fundamental rework.

The Integration Process

Step 1: Assess

Fetch the branch and review the diff
Identify what the contribution does, what it changes, and what assumptions it makes
Check: how far has main moved since the contributor branched off?
Check: does the contribution touch sensitive areas (auth, security, data model, user-facing text)?

Step 2: Review

Evaluate against the project's quality gates. Produce written feedback covering:

What's strong — acknowledge good work
What must change — security issues, broken functionality, standards violations
What should change — code quality improvements, performance concerns, architectural suggestions

Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

Create a fresh branch off current main. Never merge the contributor's branch directly.
Selectively bring in changes. File by file, function by function. Cherry-pick the implementation, not the entire branch.
Fix identified issues during integration. Do not merge first and fix later. The adapted code should be production-ready when it hits main.
Test the integrated result. Run the full test suite — not just the tests for the PRs being merged. Test the feature manually. Verify nothing regressed.
Squash merge to canonical main. Use contributor attribution (see below).
Sync mirrors/forks. Push the updated main to any mirrors.

Step 4: Communicate

Share the integration review with the contributor
Explain what was changed and why — this is how standards transfer
Acknowledge their contribution's value
Note lessons that should go into the contributor guide

Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

When a PR targets one branch and you need the same commit on another long-lived branch (for QA, staging, or any other reason), put the commit on that other branch as a separate operation. NEVER merge that other branch INTO the PR branch.

This rule is branch-name-agnostic. Teams use many conventions — main/develop, master/staging, trunk/release, GitHub Flow with feature flags, environment branches, Gitflow, and more. The rule applies whenever a PR branch must stay scoped to the change it represents, and the commit also needs to live on a separate long-lived branch for deployment, QA, or similar reasons.

Terminology used below:

PR target branch — the branch the PR will merge into (often main, master, or trunk)
Staging branch — any separate long-lived branch the commit also needs to reach (e.g., develop, staging, release/*, a UAT branch, etc.)

Merging a staging branch into a PR branch is a shortcut that pollutes the PR diff with all of that branch's in-progress work. GitHub shows hundreds or thousands of changes that aren't actually part of the PR. A reviewer cannot see the actual change. Worse, if the PR is squash-merged, every unreleased commit from the staging branch lands on the PR target branch in one shot — shipping untested and unrelated work under the PR's name.

The correct pattern

You have one commit on a branch based on the PR target branch (call it feature-X). You need:

PR open with that commit — reviewers see only the change
The same commit on a staging branch so deployment / QA picks it up

The safe sequence — substitute your project's actual branch names:

# Variables — replace with your team's branch names:
#   PR_TARGET    = the PR's target branch (e.g., main, master, trunk)
#   STAGING      = the long-lived branch that also needs the commit
#                  (e.g., develop, staging, release, uat)

# 1. Keep feature-X scoped to your commit (based on PR_TARGET)
git push origin feature-X

# 2. Open PR against PR_TARGET from feature-X

# 3. Put the commit on STAGING WITHOUT polluting feature-X:
git checkout $STAGING
git pull origin $STAGING
git merge feature-X          # fast-forward or small merge commit
git push origin $STAGING

# 4. Return to feature-X for any follow-up work
git checkout feature-X

Concrete example for a Gitflow-style team (PR_TARGET=main, STAGING=develop):

git push origin feature-X                  # PR branch stays clean
# open PR against main from feature-X
git checkout develop && git pull origin develop
git merge feature-X && git push origin develop
git checkout feature-X

Never run git merge origin/<staging-branch> while on your PR branch. That's the anti-pattern this rule exists to prevent, regardless of what the staging branch is named.

Why this matters

The PR diff is how reviewers form their opinion. A misleading diff:

Costs the reviewer's time (they have to mentally subtract unrelated changes)
Invites "request changes" from reviewers worried about scope
Creates real risk: if the PR gets squash-merged (or a reviewer clicks "merge" without checking), all of the staging branch's unreleased work ships to the PR target branch

Incident this rule came from

One team's workflow uses main as the PR target and develop as the staging branch. On 2026-04-20, a one-commit chore PR (~23 files, 358/110 lines) was opened against main. To make a subsequent push to develop a fast-forward, the agent merged origin/develop into the PR branch. The PR diff ballooned to 6,900 changes spanning unreleased staging work. Reviewers opened "request changes" and flagged the squash-merge risk. The branch was force-pushed back to the single commit within the hour, but the confusion was avoidable. The rule above is the procedural fix — it applies to any team regardless of branch naming.

When this is safe

Merging a staging branch into a PR branch IS appropriate when the PR explicitly represents the staging-to-target promotion (e.g., a release PR from develop → main, or a staging → production cutover PR). Those PRs exist specifically to land that accumulated work, so the diff should show it.

For all other PRs — feature, chore, fix, refactor — the default is branch hygiene above.

Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

Cherry-picking is the most common integration mechanism, but it carries a hidden risk: files from a contributor's old branch may silently overwrite work from prior synthesis merges. The cherry-pick succeeds without conflicts because the contributor's version is "newer" in git's view, but it reverts improvements that were made after the contributor branched.

If your project has a dedicated merge verification skill, run it after every cherry-pick. A good verification protocol covers file over

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# Code Integration

When multiple people contribute to a project built through synthesis coding, integration is fundamentally different from a standard open source merge workflow. This skill defines how it works.

---

## The Core Problem

In synthesis coding, the lead developer (the "lead synthesist") builds and evolves the system through continuous, context-rich collaboration with AI. The result is a codebase with:

- Deep architectural consistency — decisions compound across sessions
- Implicit conventions — not all standards are documented yet because one person held them all in their head
- Rapid evolution — the codebase may change substantially between the time an external contributor branches off and the time they submit a PR

A blind merge risks:

- **Regression** — undoing improvements the lead made after the contributor branched
- **Inconsistency** — introducing patterns that conflict with the codebase's evolved conventions
- **Security gaps** — missing safeguards the lead added (audit logging, rate limiting, input validation)
- **Quality drift** — code that works but does not meet the project's current bar

---

## Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

The lead synthesist does not merge external contributions directly. Instead:

1. **Adopt** the intent, the design, and the valuable implementation work
2. **Adapt** the code to meet current standards, architecture, and quality bar

This is neither a merge nor a rewrite. It is selective integration with improvement. The contributor's work is the foundation; the lead brings it up to production standard.

### Why This Works

- **Respects the contributor's work.** Their design thinking, feature concept, and implementation effort are preserved.
- **Maintains quality.** The lead synthesist is the quality gate. Nothing ships that does not meet the bar.
- **Avoids regression.** By starting from current `main` and selectively pulling in changes, the lead never risks overwriting recent improvements.
- **Educates through feedback.** The review process teaches contributors the project's standards, making future contributions smoother.

### Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

- The contributor did not have the latest context. Their code is correct for a codebase that no longer exists in that exact form.
- Standards evolve faster than documentation. The lead synthesist holds conventions that are not yet written down.
- AI-accelerated development means the codebase moves fast. A branch that is a week old may be dozens of commits behind.

---

## Roles

### Lead Synthesist

The person who holds the architectural vision, maintains the quality bar, and has the deepest context on the system.

**Responsibilities:**
- Define and evolve project standards
- Review all external contributions
- Perform adopt-and-adapt integration
- Maintain the canonical repository
- Control production deployments
- Document standards as they emerge through the integration process

**Key principle:** The lead synthesist's standards ARE the project's standards. Integration is the forcing function that makes those standards explicit and documented.

### Contributors

Developers who build features on branches or forks. They may or may not use synthesis coding themselves.

**Responsibilities:**
- Understand existing standards before building (read the contributor guide)
- Submit complete features (both frontend and backend, with tests)
- Maintain clean branch hygiene (one feature per branch, meaningful commits)
- Respond to review feedback and iterate

---

## Contribution Workflow

### Before Building

1. **Read the project's contributor guide.** Every synthesis-coded project with external contributors should maintain one.
2. **Sync to latest main.** Do not build on stale code.
3. **Discuss the approach for significant features.** Especially anything touching auth, security, the data model, or user-facing architecture.

### While Building

1. **One feature per branch.** Never bundle unrelated work.
2. **Complete features only.** Backend + frontend + tests = complete.
3. **Follow existing patterns.** Before creating a new component, search the codebase for similar ones.
4. **Meaningful commits.** Use conventional commit format (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `test:`, `chore:`).

### Submitting

1. **Rebase onto latest main.** Minimize divergence.
2. **Clean diff.** No debugging artifacts, no commented-out experiments, no unrelated changes.
3. **Share early if uncertain.** A draft PR with a question is better than a finished PR that needs fundamental rework.

---

## The Integration Process

### Step 1: Assess

- Fetch the branch and review the diff
- Identify what the contribution does, what it changes, and what assumptions it makes
- Check: how far has `main` moved since the contributor branched off?
- Check: does the contribution touch sensitive areas (auth, security, data model, user-facing text)?

### Step 2: Review

Evaluate against the project's quality gates. Produce written feedback covering:

- **What's strong** — acknowledge good work
- **What must change** — security issues, broken functionality, standards violations
- **What should change** — code quality improvements, performance concerns, architectural suggestions

### Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

1. **Create a fresh branch off current `main`.** Never merge the contributor's branch directly.
2. **Selectively bring in changes.** File by file, function by function. Cherry-pick the implementation, not the entire branch.
3. **Fix identified issues during integration.** Do not merge first and fix later. The adapted code should be production-ready when it hits `main`.
4. **Test the integrated result.** Run the full test suite — not just the tests for the PRs being merged. Test the feature manually. Verify nothing regressed.
5. **Squash merge to canonical `main`.** Use contributor attribution (see below).
6. **Sync mirrors/forks.** Push the updated `main` to any mirrors.

### Step 4: Communicate

- Share the integration review with the contributor
- Explain what was changed and why — this is how standards transfer
- Acknowledge their contribution's value
- Note lessons that should go into the contributor guide

---

## Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

**When a PR targets one branch and you need the same commit on another long-lived branch (for QA, staging, or any other reason), put the commit on that other branch as a separate operation. NEVER merge that other branch INTO the PR branch.**

This rule is branch-name-agnostic. Teams use many conventions — `main`/`develop`, `master`/`staging`, `trunk`/`release`, GitHub Flow with feature flags, environment branches, Gitflow, and more. The rule applies whenever a PR branch must stay scoped to the change it represents, and the commit also needs to live on a separate long-lived branch for deployment, QA, or similar reasons.

Terminology used below:

- **PR target branch** — the branch the PR will merge into (often `main`, `master`, or `trunk`)
- **Staging branch** — any separate long-lived branch the commit also needs to reach (e.g., `develop`, `staging`, `release/*`, a UAT branch, etc.)

### The correct pattern

You have one commit on a branch based on the PR target branch (call it `feature-X`). You need:

1. PR open with that commit — reviewers see only the change
2. The same commit on a staging branch so deployment / QA picks it up

The safe sequence — substitute your project's actual branch names:

```bash
# Variables — replace with your team's branch names:
# PR_TARGET = the PR's target branch (e.g., main, master, trunk)
# STAGING = the long-lived branch that also needs the commit
# (e.g., develop, staging, release, uat)

# 1. Keep feature-X scoped to your commit (based on PR_TARGET)
git push origin feature-X

# 2. Open PR against PR_TARGET from feature-X

# 3. Put the commit on STAGING WITHOUT polluting feature-X:
git checkout $STAGING
git pull origin $STAGING
git merge feature-X # fast-forward or small merge commit
git push origin $STAGING

# 4. Return to feature-X for any follow-up work
git checkout feature-X
```

Concrete example for a Gitflow-style team (`PR_TARGET=main`, `STAGING=develop`):

```bash
git push origin feature-X # PR branch stays clean
# open PR against main from feature-X
git checkout develop && git pull origin develop
git merge feature-X && git push origin develop
git checkout feature-X
```

Never run `git merge origin/<staging-branch>` while on your PR branch. That's the anti-pattern this rule exists to prevent, regardless of what the staging branch is named.

### Why this matters

The PR diff is how reviewers form their opinion. A misleading diff:

- Costs the reviewer's time (they have to mentally subtract unrelated changes)
- Invites "request changes" from reviewers worried about scope
- Creates real risk: if the PR gets squash-merged (or a reviewer clicks "merge" without checking), all of the staging branch's unreleased work ships to the PR target branch

### Incident this rule came from

One team's workflow uses `main` as the PR target and `develop` as the staging branch. On 2026-04-20, a one-commit chore PR (~23 files, 358/110 lines) was opened against `main`. To make a subsequent push to `develop` a fast-forward, the agent merged `origin/develop` into the PR branch. The PR diff ballooned to 6,900 changes spanning unreleased staging work. Reviewers opened "request changes" and flagged the squash-merge risk. The branch was force-pushed back to the single commit within the hour, but the confusion was avoidable. The rule above is the procedural fix — it applies to any team regardless of branch naming.

### When this is safe

Merging a staging branch into a PR branch IS appropriate when the PR explicitly represents the staging-to-target promotion (e.g., a release PR from `develop` → `main`, or a `staging` → `production` cutover PR). Those PRs exist specifically to land that accumulated work, so the diff should show it.

For all other PRs — feature, chore, fix, refactor — the default is branch hygiene above.

---

## Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

**If your project has a dedicated merge verification skill, run it after every cherry-pick.** A good verification protocol covers file over

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Code Integration

When multiple people contribute to a project built through synthesis coding, integration is fundamentally different from a standard open source merge workflow. This skill defines how it works.

The Core Problem

In synthesis coding, the lead developer (the "lead synthesist") builds and evolves the system through continuous, context-rich collaboration with AI. The result is a codebase with:

Deep architectural consistency — decisions compound across sessions
Implicit conventions — not all standards are documented yet because one person held them all in their head
Rapid evolution — the codebase may change substantially between the time an external contributor branches off and the time they submit a PR

A blind merge risks:

Regression — undoing improvements the lead made after the contributor branched
Inconsistency — introducing patterns that conflict with the codebase's evolved conventions
Security gaps — missing safeguards the lead added (audit logging, rate limiting, input validation)
Quality drift — code that works but does not meet the project's current bar

Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

The lead synthesist does not merge external contributions directly. Instead:

Adopt the intent, the design, and the valuable implementation work
Adapt the code to meet current standards, architecture, and quality bar

This is neither a merge nor a rewrite. It is selective integration with improvement. The contributor's work is the foundation; the lead brings it up to production standard.

Why This Works

Respects the contributor's work. Their design thinking, feature concept, and implementation effort are preserved.
Maintains quality. The lead synthesist is the quality gate. Nothing ships that does not meet the bar.
Avoids regression. By starting from current main and selectively pulling in changes, the lead never risks overwriting recent improvements.
Educates through feedback. The review process teaches contributors the project's standards, making future contributions smoother.

Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

The contributor did not have the latest context. Their code is correct for a codebase that no longer exists in that exact form.
Standards evolve faster than documentation. The lead synthesist holds conventions that are not yet written down.
AI-accelerated development means the codebase moves fast. A branch that is a week old may be dozens of commits behind.

Roles

Lead Synthesist

The person who holds the architectural vision, maintains the quality bar, and has the deepest context on the system.

Responsibilities:

Define and evolve project standards
Review all external contributions
Perform adopt-and-adapt integration
Maintain the canonical repository
Control production deployments
Document standards as they emerge through the integration process

Key principle: The lead synthesist's standards ARE the project's standards. Integration is the forcing function that makes those standards explicit and documented.

Contributors

Developers who build features on branches or forks. They may or may not use synthesis coding themselves.

Responsibilities:

Understand existing standards before building (read the contributor guide)
Submit complete features (both frontend and backend, with tests)
Maintain clean branch hygiene (one feature per branch, meaningful commits)
Respond to review feedback and iterate

Contribution Workflow

Before Building

Read the project's contributor guide. Every synthesis-coded project with external contributors should maintain one.
Sync to latest main. Do not build on stale code.
Discuss the approach for significant features. Especially anything touching auth, security, the data model, or user-facing architecture.

While Building

One feature per branch. Never bundle unrelated work.
Complete features only. Backend + frontend + tests = complete.
Follow existing patterns. Before creating a new component, search the codebase for similar ones.
Meaningful commits. Use conventional commit format (feat:, fix:, docs:, test:, chore:).

Submitting

Rebase onto latest main. Minimize divergence.
Clean diff. No debugging artifacts, no commented-out experiments, no unrelated changes.
Share early if uncertain. A draft PR with a question is better than a finished PR that needs fundamental rework.

The Integration Process

Step 1: Assess

Fetch the branch and review the diff
Identify what the contribution does, what it changes, and what assumptions it makes
Check: how far has main moved since the contributor branched off?
Check: does the contribution touch sensitive areas (auth, security, data model, user-facing text)?

Step 2: Review

Evaluate against the project's quality gates. Produce written feedback covering:

What's strong — acknowledge good work
What must change — security issues, broken functionality, standards violations
What should change — code quality improvements, performance concerns, architectural suggestions

Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

Create a fresh branch off current main. Never merge the contributor's branch directly.
Selectively bring in changes. File by file, function by function. Cherry-pick the implementation, not the entire branch.
Fix identified issues during integration. Do not merge first and fix later. The adapted code should be production-ready when it hits main.
Test the integrated result. Run the full test suite — not just the tests for the PRs being merged. Test the feature manually. Verify nothing regressed.
Squash merge to canonical main. Use contributor attribution (see below).
Sync mirrors/forks. Push the updated main to any mirrors.

Step 4: Communicate

Share the integration review with the contributor
Explain what was changed and why — this is how standards transfer
Acknowledge their contribution's value
Note lessons that should go into the contributor guide

Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

Terminology used below:

PR target branch — the branch the PR will merge into (often main, master, or trunk)
Staging branch — any separate long-lived branch the commit also needs to reach (e.g., develop, staging, release/*, a UAT branch, etc.)

The correct pattern

You have one commit on a branch based on the PR target branch (call it feature-X). You need:

PR open with that commit — reviewers see only the change
The same commit on a staging branch so deployment / QA picks it up

The safe sequence — substitute your project's actual branch names:

# Variables — replace with your team's branch names:
#   PR_TARGET    = the PR's target branch (e.g., main, master, trunk)
#   STAGING      = the long-lived branch that also needs the commit
#                  (e.g., develop, staging, release, uat)

# 1. Keep feature-X scoped to your commit (based on PR_TARGET)
git push origin feature-X

# 2. Open PR against PR_TARGET from feature-X

# 3. Put the commit on STAGING WITHOUT polluting feature-X:
git checkout $STAGING
git pull origin $STAGING
git merge feature-X          # fast-forward or small merge commit
git push origin $STAGING

# 4. Return to feature-X for any follow-up work
git checkout feature-X

Concrete example for a Gitflow-style team (PR_TARGET=main, STAGING=develop):

git push origin feature-X                  # PR branch stays clean
# open PR against main from feature-X
git checkout develop && git pull origin develop
git merge feature-X && git push origin develop
git checkout feature-X

Never run git merge origin/<staging-branch> while on your PR branch. That's the anti-pattern this rule exists to prevent, regardless of what the staging branch is named.

Why this matters

The PR diff is how reviewers form their opinion. A misleading diff:

Costs the reviewer's time (they have to mentally subtract unrelated changes)
Invites "request changes" from reviewers worried about scope
Creates real risk: if the PR gets squash-merged (or a reviewer clicks "merge" without checking), all of the staging branch's unreleased work ships to the PR target branch

Incident this rule came from

When this is safe

For all other PRs — feature, chore, fix, refactor — the default is branch hygiene above.

Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

If your project has a dedicated merge verification skill, run it after every cherry-pick. A good verification protocol covers file over

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# Code Integration

When multiple people contribute to a project built through synthesis coding, integration is fundamentally different from a standard open source merge workflow. This skill defines how it works.

---

## The Core Problem

In synthesis coding, the lead developer (the "lead synthesist") builds and evolves the system through continuous, context-rich collaboration with AI. The result is a codebase with:

A blind merge risks:

---

## Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

The lead synthesist does not merge external contributions directly. Instead:

1. **Adopt** the intent, the design, and the valuable implementation work
2. **Adapt** the code to meet current standards, architecture, and quality bar

This is neither a merge nor a rewrite. It is selective integration with improvement. The contributor's work is the foundation; the lead brings it up to production standard.

### Why This Works

### Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

---

## Roles

### Lead Synthesist

The person who holds the architectural vision, maintains the quality bar, and has the deepest context on the system.

**Key principle:** The lead synthesist's standards ARE the project's standards. Integration is the forcing function that makes those standards explicit and documented.

### Contributors

Developers who build features on branches or forks. They may or may not use synthesis coding themselves.

---

## Contribution Workflow

### Before Building

### While Building

### Submitting

---

## The Integration Process

### Step 1: Assess

### Step 2: Review

Evaluate against the project's quality gates. Produce written feedback covering:

### Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

### Step 4: Communicate

---

## Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

Terminology used below:

### The correct pattern

You have one commit on a branch based on the PR target branch (call it `feature-X`). You need:

1. PR open with that commit — reviewers see only the change
2. The same commit on a staging branch so deployment / QA picks it up

The safe sequence — substitute your project's actual branch names:

# 1. Keep feature-X scoped to your commit (based on PR_TARGET)
git push origin feature-X

# 2. Open PR against PR_TARGET from feature-X

# 3. Put the commit on STAGING WITHOUT polluting feature-X:
git checkout $STAGING
git pull origin $STAGING
git merge feature-X # fast-forward or small merge commit
git push origin $STAGING

# 4. Return to feature-X for any follow-up work
git checkout feature-X
```

Concrete example for a Gitflow-style team (`PR_TARGET=main`, `STAGING=develop`):

Never run `git merge origin/<staging-branch>` while on your PR branch. That's the anti-pattern this rule exists to prevent, regardless of what the staging branch is named.

### Why this matters

The PR diff is how reviewers form their opinion. A misleading diff:

### Incident this rule came from

### When this is safe

For all other PRs — feature, chore, fix, refactor — the default is branch hygiene above.

---

## Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

**If your project has a dedicated merge verification skill, run it after every cherry-pick.** A good verification protocol covers file over

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Overview

Code Integration

The Core Problem

Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

Why This Works

Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

Roles

Lead Synthesist

Contributors

Contribution Workflow

Before Building

While Building

Submitting

The Integration Process

Step 1: Assess

Step 2: Review

Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

Step 4: Communicate

Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

The correct pattern

Why this matters

Incident this rule came from

When this is safe

Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

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Overview

Code Integration

The Core Problem

Adopt-and-Adapt: The Integration Pattern

Why This Works

Why Direct Merge Does Not Work

Roles

Lead Synthesist

Contributors

Contribution Workflow

Before Building

While Building

Submitting

The Integration Process

Step 1: Assess

Step 2: Review

Step 3: Integrate (Adopt-and-Adapt)

Step 4: Communicate

Branch Hygiene: PR Branches Stay Clean of Other Branches' Content

The correct pattern

Why this matters

Incident this rule came from

When this is safe

Post-Cherry-Pick Regression Verification

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