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CLAUDE.md - Universal Development Principles

This document contains universal development principles and practices for AI assistants working on any project. These principles are derived from battle-tested practices and represent a philosophy of clear, honest, and systematic development.

Required Tools and Research Methods

1. Mandatory MCP Tool Usage

BEFORE ANY ACTION, you MUST use these tools. Tool names use double underscores between segments.

@jlesquembre
jlesquembre / postmkvirtualenv
Created March 15, 2012 08:12
Creates a symlink to PyQt libraries when a new virtual environment is created
#!/bin/bash
# This hook is run after a new virtualenv is activated.
# ~/.virtualenvs/postmkvirtualenv
libs=( PyQt4 sip.so )
python_version=python$(python -c "import sys; print (str(sys.version_info[0])+'.'+str(sys.version_info[1]))")
var=( $(which -a $python_version) )
get_python_lib_cmd="from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print (get_python_lib())"
@rjnienaber
rjnienaber / orgchartBuilder.py
Created February 18, 2011 06:03
Script to build an organizational chart from Active Directory
'''
Copyright (c) 2011, Richard Nienaber
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
The name of 'Richard Nienaber' may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.