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+# Sai AGENTS.md
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+## Overview
+
+Please make high quality, not lazy implementation decisions.
+
+Our work should follow the existing usage of apis in the project as much as possible.
+
+## Coding
+
+We avoid things like `scanf` for carefully parsing with code, eg with `lws_tokenize` or similar.
+
+We avoid `FILE *` and use apis like open(), read().
+
+We avoid casual linked-lists and use `lws_dll2_t`.
+
+We consider using lwsac instead of discrete allocations, if the pattern of allocations will benefit from it.
+
+## Build testing
+
+Please don't worry about build-testing, just push patches when you are confident they are complete and have considered all affected code (ie, not half-assed) and ready and I will try them and report back with grounded information.
+
+If you really want to build-test:
+
+Sai dependencies:
+
+ - libwebsockets from main branch
+    - libssl-dev
+    - libsqlite3
+    - Build lws:  git init && git fetch https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets +main:main && cd libwebsockets && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. -DLWS_UNIX_SOCK=1 -DLWS_WITH_STRUCT_JSON=1 -DLWS_WITH_JOSE=1 -DLWS_WITH_STRUCT_SQLITE3=1 -DLWS_WITH_GENCRYPTO=1 -DLWS_WITH_SPAWN=1 -DLWS_WITH_SECURE_STREAMS=1 && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig
+
+ - sai (main branch shown)
+    - Build sai:  git init && git fetch https://github.com/warmcat/sai +main:m && cd libwebsockets && mkdir -p build && cd build && cmake .. && make && sudo make install && sudo ldconfig
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