I'm particularly intrigued by the large bold letters: "Success must be verifiable by the AI / LLM that will be writing the code later, using tools like Codex or Cursor."

May I ask, what your testing strategy is like?

I think you've encapsulated a good best practices workflow here in a nice condensed way.

I'd also be interested to know how you handle documentation but don't want to bombard you with too many questions