---
created_at: "2026-03-01T09:00:00Z"
tags: [brain, brain/retired, brain/topic/tabs-over-spaces, brain/scope/coding]
topic: tabs-over-spaces
principle: "Use tabs for indentation, not spaces."
_evidenced_by: []
_applied_count: 2
_violated_count: 0
_last_evidence_at: "2026-03-01T09:00:00Z"
_confidence: medium
_confidence_value: 0.4
pinned: false
scope: coding
kind: brain-retired
id: ret-tabs-over-spaces
_status: retired
retired_at: "2026-05-16T11:00:00.000Z"
retired_reason: user-rejected
retired_by: "[[Brain/log/2026-05-16]]"
user_rejected_reason: "Mixed indentation is acceptable in this codebase — different repos use different conventions and one global rule cannot capture that."
aliases: [pref-tabs-over-spaces]
---



## Retired

Reason: `user-rejected`
Retired at: 2026-05-16T11:00:00.000Z
Retired by: [[Brain/log/2026-05-16]]
User reason: Mixed indentation is acceptable in this codebase — different repos use different conventions and one global rule cannot capture that.

