standard-first

Guides technical implementation to always prefer the standard, officially-documented solution over custom or AI-generated code. Use when you are about to write new code for a feature, suggest or add a library or package, scaffold a new project, or configure a framework, in any language, including .NET and C#, Node.js and npm, Python, Go, Java, and the rest. Use it above all when the problem sounds like something that a built-in framework feature or a package registry already solves, such as logging enrichment, auth, serialization, retries, health checks, or migrations. Do not skip this skill because the answer feels obvious from training data.