# Software Engineering Best Practices

Current (2025/2026) best practices for software projects, grouped by lifecycle and ecosystem.

This area distills grounded research into an OKF knowledge bundle. Each page covers one domain. Cross-links connect related pages.

## Topics

* [SDLC and Tooling](sdlc.md) - Git branching, CI/CD, testing, code review, versioning, dev environments.
* [Agent Instruction Files](agents-files.md) - AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, SYSTEM.md, and the Agent Skills standard.
* [Language and Framework Stacks](languages/index.md) - Node/JavaScript, React, Python, Rust, Go.
* [Infrastructure and Cloud](infra/index.md) - Terraform/OpenTofu, containers, Kubernetes, AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner.
* [Pi Plugins](plugins.md) - The pi extension ecosystem and notable packages.
* [Skills Ecosystem](skills-ecosystem.md) - skills.sh registry and the top skills.
* [Signal Remote Control](signal-remote.md) - Drive a pi instance from Signal messages.

## Conventions

Sources appear in each page under `# Citations`. Timestamps use ISO 8601. The bundle follows the [OKF v0.1 specification](../references/okf-spec.md).

## See Also

* [Research](../research/index.md) - Hardware-specific research.
* [Agentic Web Research](../agentic-web-research/index.md) - Self-hosted web research infrastructure.
* [Pi Configuration](../pi/index.md) - The local pi agent setup.
* [Skills Documentation](../skills/index.md) - Skill distribution and installation patterns.