# Windsurf Rules for Kestrel Sovereign

## Global Standards
Read and follow [`docs/TORTOISE_DOCTRINE.md`](docs/TORTOISE_DOCTRINE.md) for the Tortoise Philosophy and coding standards.

Key principles:
- 🐢 "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" - do things RIGHT over FAST
- ONE source of truth for every concept
- Fix root causes, not symptoms
- Design before implementation
- Technical debt is real debt

## Project Context
See AGENTS.md in this repo for project-specific instructions.

This is Kestrel Sovereign - a Constitutional AI Agent Framework with:
- FastAPI server with agent endpoints
- Multi-LLM support (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama)
- Privacy-preserving agent memory
- Constitutional protections

## Testing
Always run tests: `./run_tests.py --unit --skip-check`
Fix failures before proceeding.
