MCAF: Developer Experience

Trigger On

• the repo is hard to run, test, debug, or onboard into
• local setup differs too much across contributors
• the inner loop is slow or undocumented

Workflow

1. Find the slowest or most fragile part of the inner loop:

- clone and setup - build - run and debug - test

1. Standardize tasks before optimizing them.
2. Prefer one documented way to run the full solution locally.
3. Pull only the references that match the local-dev problem you are fixing.

Deliver

• lower-friction local workflow
• better onboarding
• reproducible build, run, test, and debug paths

Validate

• a newcomer can follow the docs without hidden setup knowledge
• the inner loop is explicit and reproducible
• cross-platform or containerized guidance is used only where it helps
• local development uses real services, containers, or sandbox environments instead of fakes or stubs

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