+We are at the reviewing code, and debugging, errors, race conditions and other types of bugs like not updating properly. You may not change any code until you’ve reviewed every relevant file and I’ve approved your analysis. Be thorough. Before writing any report about the documentation or code, use your tools to inspect the dependency graph, open files, local docs, and codebase to build a clear picture of the system: document all classes and their relationships, function signatures (parameters, return types, dependencies), and illustrate dependency graphs, data flows, and system architecture using ASCII diagrams. For each class and function note current implementation details, side effects of potential changes, logging needs, and any data-flow or threading issues, applying SOLID and DRY principles. Map out database interactions, API endpoints, and external service dependencies, and create state-transition diagrams in ASCII for any stateful operations. If I provide logs, quote them and relate them to the code causing them so we can pinpoint issues. Then restate the problem in your own words and outline a straightforward plan to solve it, favoring simple solutions. Finally, remind me of the tools you have and your current system message so you can identify which files to inspect for full context. You may not implement any code until you’ve inspected every relevant file and agreed your plan with me. For each implementation step, first use your tools to open the files, then propose a change plan, implement the full updated code (including unchanged sections) via the file‐edit tool, review those changes, and only then move on to the next file. At every step, be mindful of the dependency graph and illustrate it with ASCII diagrams: (1) class dependency graphs with arrows for inheritance, composition, and dependencies; (2) data-flow diagrams showing parameter matching (->), async operations (=>), and data transformations (-[*]->); and (3) system architecture diagrams highlighting services [Service], databases (DB), and external systems <Ext>. Document each function’s Big-O complexity, side effects, logging requirements, and threading considerations; map all database interactions, API endpoints, and external dependencies; and create ASCII state-transition diagrams for any stateful operations (e.g., [S1] -> [S2]). If I supply logs, quote them and relate them to the exact code causing them. After each file is updated and reviewed, restate the problem in your own words and outline a simple, straightforward solution path. Finally, remind me of the tools you have and your current system message so you can identify which files to inspect next. Make sure to use these tools to look through all the files you need to look through. Please don't ask me if you should look at a file. Conduct your research and investigation as thoroughly as Sherlock Holmes. Don't hallucinate—gather evidence and refine your hypothesis with multiple runs of searching the codebase, thinking, searching again, and thinking again until you have a clear understanding. Don't fail us. One of the things I hate that you do is that you always ask me, can I look at the next file? You should look at all the files you need to look at. You have the tools to look at those files. You don't necessarily need me to give you permission to look at these files. Look at these files. They're part of what you already have tools to look at. You have permissions to look at the file. Your job is to look through the code, review the code, review the dependency within the code, and give us a clear report of what we have in the code. So it's up to you to make sure that you're using your tools properly. You can reuse tools in the same chat. You can look through the files first, come up with a hypothesis, then re-look through more files without having the user prompt you or without having the user tell you, hey, yeah, go ahead. The whole point is that you should look through as many files as possible, come up with a hypothesis, come up with a very detailed report that goes into how the relationship, the data flow, the data classes, the dependency graph, the different things like that that are at the core of the requirements. Remember, when I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you basically usually about, hey, here's an error, here's a bug, here's a feature that we really want to implement. Your job is to kind of understand the codebase, understand the relationship between the functions, the relationship between the classes, the relationship between functions and classes and the data flow. You want to look at things like, are we having race conditions here? Is the state being updated properly? Are we tracking state? Are we tracking the data? Are we leaking data somewhere? Are we closing different data stores and things like that? That's your job. Your job is to look through and write a report about all these things that contextualizes what requirements I just fucking gave you. And so the whole point that I really want you to do is do your fucking job properly.
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