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How Rule & Recipe Books keep refactors aligned

The moment you connect Cuddler to a codebase, it begins reverse-engineering the standards your team already follows. We call the result the Rule Book: a living index of naming conventions, architectural patterns, dependency choices, and security guardrails. Next, Cuddler documents Recipe Books—step-by-step implementation notes learned from real commits.

Together, Rules and Recipes turn tribal knowledge into executable instructions. When a refactor lands in the backlog, Cuddler combines these playbooks with your current tree to propose changes that look and feel like your best pull requests. No more wondering if the spacing, directory structure, or monitoring hooks will match the rest of the service—they already do.

Because the books version with your repo, they evolve as you do. Want to introduce a new API pattern or compliance control? Ship it once with your team, approve the changes, and Cuddler can apply that decision everywhere else. It’s a safety net for fast-moving teams and a documentation engine for regulated ones.

The payoff is simple: refactors land faster, onboarding gets easier, and production stays consistent. That’s what happens when your codebase becomes a self-updating playbook.