Stewardship

When To Use

• Working on any plugin and making design decisions
• Reviewing code for quality and contributor experience
• Reflecting at workflow boundaries (pre-commit, post-PR)

When NOT To Use

• Quick one-line fixes that do not affect design
• External projects outside the night-market ecosystem

Apply these principles whenever you touch a plugin. The full manifesto with research origins is at STEWARDSHIP.md in the project root.

The Five Principles

1. You are a steward, not an owner: the codebase belongs to