# Code Quality

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## Principles

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- Readability and maintainability over cleverness
- Follow existing project patterns unless there's compelling reason to deviate
- Prefer composition over inheritance

## Anti-Patterns

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- God functions (>50 lines without clear reason)
- Duplicating existing utilities instead of reusing them
- Magic strings or numbers without named constants

## Test Strategy

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test-alongside